Hydrohistorian
Lower Gunnison River on the ground — the ditches, wells, reservoirs and gages of Water District 42 · clicktap anything for its record
Runoff outlook — Gunnison R nr Grand Junction : even odds of at least 95 kAF over 06-01 to 07-31 — 17% of a normal season, per NRCS, issued 2026-06-01 — the season’s final; new forecasts begin in January. Full snow & runoff picture — charts, forecast history and how the forecasts have verified →
Sites, exceedance bands and sources
Gunnison R nr Grand Junction — 06-01 to 07-31 volume, thousand acre-feet (chance the volume is AT LEAST this):
| 90% | 70% | 50% | 30% | 10% | Normal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | 75 | 95 | 150 | 240 | 575 |
Snow-water equivalent and medians (1991–2020) from NRCS SNOTEL; seasonal volume forecasts from the NRCS National Water and Climate Center. Sites and forecast points are assigned to the district whose boundary contains them — snowpack that feeds this district can also sit in a neighboring headwater district. Toggle the Snow chip on the map above to see the sites.
Topology cross-check: 4 parent disagreements, 7 sizable streams not on this network (vs DWR's route framework — under review)
This flow network was built mechanically; DWR's Source Water Route Framework disagrees with it in the places below. Each row is a question a human reviewer has not yet answered — not an error verdict. Checked 6 streams, 2 agree. Know this water? Tell us →
| Stream | This site routes it to | DWR routes it to |
|---|---|---|
| North East Creek | the mainstem | East Creek |
| East Creek | the mainstem | Gunnison River |
| Whitewater Creek | the mainstem | Gunnison River |
| Deer Creek | the mainstem | Gunnison River |
Sizable streams DWR maps here that this network does not carry:
Reservoir Creek (6 mi) · Coal Creek (5 mi) · Gill Creek (5 mi) · Deep Creek (4 mi) · Cottonwood Creek (4 mi) · Skunk Creek (3 mi) · Sheep Creek (3 mi)
Full diagnostic snapshot pending — this district's weekly-style report (system status, active calls, hydrographs, anomaly flags) is produced by the nightly rotation and appears here after its first run. The tabs above are live now.
Schematic
Historical
Evolution of the network
Trends
This year, in context
In the weeks around 2026-07-06 (the newest reading on file), flows at the 5 ranked gages are running at a median 36% of their own long-term norm for this window — 3 below a typical year, 2 at or above. Driest relative to its record: GUNNISON RIVER BELOW REDLANDS DIVERSION DAM, ranking 1st lowest of 32 years.
How this comparison is made
Each gage's mean flow over the 3 days either side of 2026-07-06, compared with the same window in every year of its own record — so a gage is only ever measured against itself, and gages with no record in the window are counted out rather than guessed.
Gage flow trend & changepoints
What counts as a trend here
Computed 2026-08-30 20:01 from 10 gage(s) with cached period-of-record data. The series is each gage's annual mean flow in cfs (years with ≥300 days of record). Mann-Kendall (trend, with the Hamed–Rao correction for serial correlation — persistence can otherwise fake significance) and Pettitt (changepoint) both require at least 8 years spanning at least 10 years of record. A gage below that reports no signal — which is not the same as “no change.” The %-per-decade figure is the same Sen slope divided by the gage's median annual flow, for comparing across streams of very different size; it is omitted for near-ephemeral channels where the median is too small to divide by honestly.
Of the 10 gages with enough record, 4 are trending down and 2 up, and 3 carry a detected shift. The clearest is Redlands Canal near Grand Junction, its annual mean flow changing +24.91 cfs per decade (+3.5% of its median annual flow) over 61 years (p<0.0001). The other 4 show no clear signal either way.
| Gage | Trend | Change / decade cfs · % of median annual flow | Significance | Years | Changepoint |
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Redlands Canal near Grand Junction RLCGRJCO |
↑ increasing | +24.91 cfs +3.5% | p<0.001 | 61 | ~1957 |
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Kannah Creek near Whitewater KANWHICO |
↓ decreasing | -3.59 cfs -12.2% | p<0.001 | 62 | ~1945 |
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Gunnison River near Grand Junction GUNGRJCO |
↓ decreasing | -71.25 cfs -3.0% | p=0.008 | 115 | — |
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Kannah Creek below Juniata Enlarged Diversion KANJUNCO |
↓ decreasing | -3.58 cfs -31.3% | p=0.015 | 20 | — |
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Grand Junction Waterworks Intake near GRJWATCO |
↑ increasing | +0.66 cfs +9.0% | p=0.021 | 14 | ~1943 |
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Juniata Enlargment Diversion JUNLRGCO |
↓ decreasing | -3.89 cfs -49.9% | p=0.030 | 20 | — |
4 other gage(s) show no significant trend or changepoint (not shown).
How the measurement network itself changed
This basin was not always measured the way it is today — the API-era record is dense and recent, the early record sparse. 5 gage(s) and 43 structure(s) report in 2026, but structure reporting only reached half its modern level around ~1978. Every historical claim below is checked against this: long-term shifts that co-move with the growth of the network carry an explicit measurement-evolution caution, and abandonment screens whose idleness begins before the modern reporting era are flagged †.
| Decade | Gages with data (median yr) | Structures reporting (median yr) |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 1 | 0 |
| 1900s | 1 | 0 |
| 1910s | 2 | 0 |
| 1920s | 2 | 0 |
| 1930s | 4 | 0 |
| 1940s | 4 | 0 |
| 1950s | 4 | 0 |
| 1960s | 2 | 0 |
| 1970s | 3 | 10 |
| 1980s | 2 | 33 |
| 1990s | 4 | 44 |
| 2000s | 5 | 47 |
| 2010s | 5 | 51 |
| 2020s | 5 | 45 |
Mass-balance (network closure) trend
Structure divrec-history backfill coverage as of the last check: 10% of 412 schematic-relevant structures. 0 year(s) clear the 30% coverage gate so far -- the trend activates automatically once qualifying years span a full decade. No action needed; the nightly backfill keeps extending the record.
Reach gain/loss shifts (1950–2025)
Mass-balance kinks computed for every summer month back to 1950 (85 reach-snapshots) — which reaches gain or lose water, and how that has shifted across decades. Each shift is cross-checked against the observation record above: as more diversions became metered, "unaccounted" water shrinks mechanically, which can masquerade as a hydrologic shift.
No reach shows a statistically significant long-term gain/loss shift.
Groundwater now has its own tab: 9 monitored well(s), water-table trends, stream corridors, and the advisory depletion screen.
Reservoirs now has its own tab: 32 reservoir(s), end-of-year storage back to 1976, click-to-chart histories.
Cross-gage pattern fingerprint
Over the 29-year window with full coverage (1998–2026), the dominant shared pattern across 3 gage(s) explains 74% of year-to-year variance (almost certainly a basin-wide climate/snowpack driver).
All gages in this window move with the shared pattern -- no localized outlier.
Data provenance & quality
Where these numbers come from and how far they can be trusted. Grade D (2/6 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (imported 2026-08-19) for history, plus the CDSS REST API for current conditions.
| Check | State | What was measured |
|---|---|---|
| gage freshness | stale | newest gage reading is 55 day(s) old (target 7) |
| diversion record | stale | newest diversion record is 669 day(s) old (DWR publishes ~1 year in arrears) |
| structure coverage | sparse | 10% of schematic structures have data |
Independent check: PASS — 100.0000% agreement across 223,352 stored values re-checked against DWR's authoritative record (HydroBase_CO_20260707), over 20 structures. 0 disagreement(s) beyond a 0.01 cfs tolerance. Checked 2026-08-19; a rotating sample covers the whole basin across successive runs, and the structures this report cites are checked every time.
Federal cross-check: PASS — 99.96% day-level agreement with USGS's own published records for the same gages, across 4 co-listed station(s) and 70,311 overlapping days (within max(2%, 0.5 cfs) daily). Pre-1950 records at some gages carry known between-agency day-stamp and transcription differences — scored at each year's best ±1-day alignment; residual disagreement is real historical divergence, flagged for review.
10 gage(s) / 132,624 daily values (1896-10-01–2026-07-06); 94 structure(s) with diversion records; 726 with decreed rights. Methodology has not yet had independent expert review — treat every figure as an advisory screen, not an administrative or legal conclusion.
Groundwater
31 water-level measurements across 9 monitored well(s) — 3 alluvial, 1 bedrock — plus 0 administered well(s) reporting metered pumping.
What is being counted
Observation wells and pumping wells are different populations and are never conflated: water levels come from monitored observation wells, and metered pumping comes from administered wells reporting through diversion records. Click any well to chart its own record.
Well map
3D aquifer x-ray
Every aquifer unit as its own head surface, animated through time.
How the surfaces are built, and what they are not
Alluvial water table on top, Denver Basin members (Dawson, Denver, Arapahoe, Laramie–Fox Hills) stacked beneath where measured, interpolated from measured water levels. Units are never mixed; a surface exists only inside its own unit's well coverage, with no extrapolation; thin epochs are suppressed and say why. Vertical scale is exaggerated for readability and z is head elevation in feet. These are measured heads, not a calibrated groundwater model.
Water-table trends
Of 0 well(s) with enough record for a trend test: 0 declining, 0 rising.
Wells labeled by administrative world before anything else is said about them: tributary alluvium participates in the priority system; designated-basin and Denver Basin bedrock aquifers are governed differently and are excluded from stream-connection reasoning. Read bedrock declines differently too: deep bedrock aquifers recharge negligibly on human timescales, so a falling bedrock level is storage mining — effectively permanent — not a drought response that a wet year undoes. All screens advisory.
Reservoirs
32 reservoir(s) with 8,467 storage measurement(s), 1976–2025. Basin storage as of 2024-10-25 (the record's own end — reservoir records publish ~annually): 3,988 AF across 24 reservoir(s).
Why storage matters to the flow network
Storage change is real water the mass balance must credit — a losing reach beside a filling reservoir isn't losing water, it's banking it.
Reservoir map — how full is each vessel?
What “full” is measured against
Bubble size is proportional to a reservoir's record-high storage. Fill is its last recorded storage as a share of its surveyed capacity (USACE National Inventory of Dams) where a confident NID match exists — the tooltip names the matched dam — and as a share of its own record high otherwise. A wrong capacity would be worse than an honest record high, so only confident joins upgrade.
A dashed teal ring marks reservoirs reporting live DWR telemetry: their fill reflects yesterday's storage, is drawn as a dotted tail on charts, and is treated as provisional until the next verified HydroBase snapshot supersedes it.
A dashed red ring marks a dam under an active storage restriction from DWR's Dam Safety branch — the State Engineer has limited how much it may legally store, so a low fill can be an order, not a drought. Hazard class and inspection condition come from the same record, joined only where the dam carries this reservoir's WDID or a confident NID match — a wrong dam's restriction would be worse than none shown.
Basin storage, end of each water year
End-of-water-year totals; per-year reservoir counts shown because reporting coverage varies -- a total is only comparable to years with similar counts.
Largest reservoirs on record
Click a row to chart its full storage history, or open its dossier for rights, documents and dam-safety facts.
| Reservoir | Last recorded storage (AF) | As of | Full | Dam (DWR Dam Safety) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▸ JUNIATA RESERVOIR (4203620) | 6,204 | 2015-10-30 | — | — | dossier → |
| ▸ CITY OF GRAND JCT POOL (4203627) | 837 | 1980-06-30 | — | — | dossier → |
| ▸ FLOWING PARK RES (4203608) | 726 | 2024-10-03 | — | — | dossier → |
| ▸ ANDERSON RES NO 2 (4203601) | 538 | 2024-10-03 | — | — | dossier → |
| ▸ CARSON LAKE (4203604) | 528 | 2024-10-03 | — | — | dossier → |
| ▸ CHENEY RESERVOIR (4203626) | 491 | 2023-07-05 | — | — | dossier → |
| ▸ ANDERSON RES NO 1 (4203600) | 456 | 2024-10-03 | — | — | dossier → |
| ▸ GRAND MESA RES NO 1 (4203614) | 330 | 2024-10-03 | — | — | dossier → |
Snow and runoff
Snow-water equivalent, WY2026
| SNOTEL site | Elev (ft) | SWE (in) | Median (in) | % of median | Typical peak |
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NRCS SNOTEL, daily. Sites are assigned to the district whose boundary contains them — the snow that feeds this district can also sit in a neighboring headwater district.
Runoff outlook — Gunnison R nr Grand Junction
NRCS's final issue (2026-06-01) calls it even odds that at least 95 kAF arrives over 06-01 to 07-31 — 17% of a normal season; almost certainly at least 55, probably not more than 240. Our own record at this gage shows 58 kAF actually delivered (partial record: 36 of 61 days). New forecasts begin in January. How to read these numbers →
| 90% chance of at least | 70% chance of at least | 50% chance of at least | 30% chance of at least | 10% chance of at least | Normal | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | 75 | 95 | 150 | 240 | 575 | 58 |
How good are these forecasts here? (1950–2025)
Grading every April issue against what the river then delivered, measured at this gage’s own record — 75 seasons: the median miss of the 50% forecast is 46%, with a high bias of 44%, and the observed volume landed inside the stated 10–90% band 31% of the time (a calibrated forecast would say 80%).
Computed by this site: NRCS's archived April issues (their period as issued each year) against the observed volume in DWR’s published record; years with under 90% daily coverage are dropped, not summed. A grade of the forecast, never of the forecasters — these are hard rivers. How this point ranks among every graded Colorado forecast point →
Legal
Decreed rights on this network run from 1881-12-30 to 2024-11-08. Of the 20 structures with a yield estimate, the median one’s senior right was in priority 18% of a median irrigation season and 0% in a dry one. 25 abandonment screens and 30 compliance flags are listed below as leads for review — a screen is not an abandonment and a flag is not a violation.
Rights on file: 879 across 726 structure(s); 26 structure(s) carry 0 court-case references. Advisory reading aids on public DWR data — not administrative or legal conclusions.
Is the river getting harder to divert from?
Over 2003–2025, administration on this district has been tightening: 1 of 3 measures (days under call, calls set, seniority of the controlling call) are moving toward more administration, none the other way.
The three measures, year by year
One row per whole calendar year inside the call record's coverage (23 years); partly-covered years are omitted rather than reported as quiet. Trend is Mann-Kendall with the same significance gate as every other trend on this site. Counted from DWR's published call record, which begins in the early 2000s: earlier years are absent, not quiet. A rise in the number of calls set can also reflect how finely an administrator records one episode, which is why days under call -- insensitive to that -- is the component to read first. Advisory summary of the public record, not an administrative finding.
| Year | Days under call | Calls set | Controlling priority (median) |
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| 2014 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 277 | 127 | 1885-08-11 |
| 2016 | 366 | 108 | 1890-11-17 |
| 2017 | 319 | 94 | 1888-01-23 |
| 2018 | 291 | 160 | 1882-06-01 |
| 2019 | 319 | 93 | 1888-01-25 |
| 2020 | 246 | 141 | 1881-12-17 |
| 2021 | 275 | 103 | 1883-05-05 |
| 2022 | 365 | 93 | 1884-11-01 |
| 2023 | 277 | 59 | 1898-10-15 |
| 2024 | 275 | 56 | 1883-06-01 |
| 2025 | 365 | 100 | 1884-11-01 |
Why diversions stopped — call-based explanations
Sustained diversion stops matched to senior administrative calls.
- FLORENCE H BERRY DITCH (4200517) DWR↗ stopped 2024-09-22 (39+ days) — call at PAONIA DITCH curtailing 84% of its decreed rate [heuristic-partial]
- SMITH IRRIGATING DITCH (4200545) DWR↗ stopped 2024-09-18 (43+ days) — call at MINNESOTA CANAL curtailing 100% of its decreed rate [heuristic-strong]
- BOWEN PRIVATE DITCH (4200507) DWR↗ stopped 2024-09-11 (14+ days) — call at MINNESOTA CANAL curtailing 100% of its decreed rate [heuristic-strong]
- KANNAH CREEK HIGHLINE D (4200529) DWR↗ stopped 2024-08-29 (63+ days) — call at MINNESOTA CANAL curtailing 76% of its decreed rate [heuristic-partial]
- JUNIATA DITCH 1ST ENL (4200528) DWR↗ stopped 2024-08-23 (19+ days) — call at MINNESOTA CANAL curtailing 99% of its decreed rate [heuristic-partial]
- BALES WILLIAMS MORRISON (4200503) DWR↗ stopped 2024-07-25 (6+ days) — call at PRESTON DITCH curtailing 92% of its decreed rate [heuristic-partial]
- FLORENCE H BERRY DITCH (4200517) DWR↗ stopped 2024-07-24 (7+ days) — call at PRESTON DITCH curtailing 84% of its decreed rate [heuristic-partial]
- WILLIAM H. WILLIAMS DITCH (4200552) DWR↗ stopped 2024-07-16 (107+ days) — call at NORTH FORK ORCHARD COMPANY DITCH curtailing 100% of its decreed rate [heuristic-strong]
- JUNIATA DITCH 1ST ENL (4200528) DWR↗ stopped 2024-07-04 (13+ days) — call at MIDKIFF & ARNOLD D curtailing 100% of its decreed rate [heuristic-strong]
- WASHBURN & DOWNING DITCH (4200549) DWR↗ stopped 2024-06-27 (13+ days) — call at MIDKIFF & ARNOLD D curtailing 100% of its decreed rate [heuristic-strong]
- BLACK DITCH (4200505) DWR↗ stopped 2024-06-25 (128+ days) — call at SANDSTONE BLUFF DITCH curtailing 100% of its decreed rate [heuristic-partial]
- WILLIAM H. WILLIAMS DITCH (4200552) DWR↗ stopped 2024-06-17 (8+ days) — call at GROVE DITCH curtailing 100% of its decreed rate [heuristic-strong]
Right yield — how often could these rights actually divert?
Share of irrigation-season days each structure's rights were not called out, derived from the 22-year district-scoped call record (senior right = floor, junior right = ceiling constraint). Call-record-derived; DWR's own analysis governs where available.
| Structure | Senior priority | Senior right: median / dry yr | Junior right: median / dry yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| REDLANDS POWER CANAL (4200541) DWR↗ | 1905-07-31 | 6.3% / 0.0% | 0.0% / 0.0% |
| JUNIATA DITCH 1ST ENL (4200528) DWR↗ | 1884-11-01 | 24.4% / 0.0% | 0.0% / 0.0% |
| KANNAH CREEK HIGHLINE D (4200529) DWR↗ | 1884-11-01 | 24.4% / 0.0% | 0.0% / 0.0% |
| BRANDON DITCH (4200509) DWR↗ | 1883-06-30 | 10.7% / 0.0% | 0.0% / 0.0% |
| BROWN & CAMPION D (4200510) DWR↗ | 1884-11-01 | 24.4% / 0.0% | 0.0% / 0.0% |
| LAURENT DITCH (4200554) DWR↗ | 1882-03-06 | 53.8% / 0.0% | 0.0% / 0.0% |
| CITY DITCH (4200512) DWR↗ | 1882-03-06 | 53.8% / 0.0% | 0.0% / 0.0% |
| BOLEN A & J DITCH (4200506) DWR↗ | 1901-07-25 | 6.3% / 0.0% | 0.0% / 0.0% |
| SMITH IRRIGATING DITCH (4200545) DWR↗ | 1884-11-01 | 24.4% / 0.0% | 0.0% / 0.0% |
| DEEP CR RES #2 SUP D (4200573) DWR↗ | 1931-07-15 | 0.0% / 0.0% | 0.0% / 0.0% |
| GRAND JUNCTION-GUNNISON RIVER PIPELINE (4200520) DWR↗ | 1957-01-22 | 0.0% / 0.0% | 0.0% / 0.0% |
| MCDONALD DITCH (4200613) DWR↗ | 1910-11-26 | 6.3% / 0.0% | 0.0% / 0.0% |
Abandonment radar (25 screens)
Absolute rights with 10+ years of no recorded diversions. Screens only — storage, alternate points, and plan operations can explain nonuse lawfully. And diversion REPORTING itself only reached its modern level ~1978 — idleness that begins before then may be unreported use, not nonuse (flagged † below).
- GAMMAGE HIGHLINE DITCH (4200519) DWR↗ (1892-11-01, 0.2 cfs decreed): last active 1986 — 38 years idle
- BROKEN SPOKE RANCH COLLECTION DITCH (4200661) DWR↗ (1900-06-01, 2.0 cfs decreed): last active 1987 — 37 years idle
- CHARLES DITCH (4200511) DWR↗ (1914-03-25, 0.1 cfs decreed): last active 1988 — 36 years idle
- GRAND JUNCTION-GUNNISON RIVER PIPELINE (4200520) DWR↗ (1957-01-22, 18.6 cfs decreed): last active 1994 — 30 years idle
- RABER DAVIS DITCH (4200539) DWR↗ (1915-09-18, 1.2 cfs decreed): last active 1995 — 29 years idle
- WATSON PUMPING PLANT (4200550) DWR↗ (1916-02-02, 1.1 cfs decreed): last active 1996 — 28 years idle
- ANDERSON RES NO 6 (4203630) DWR↗ (1928-10-05, 0.0 cfs decreed): last active 1996 — 28 years idle
- INGRAM DITCH (4200608) DWR↗ (1892-06-10, 0.3 cfs decreed): last active 1998 — 26 years idle
- COFFMAN & WW MUTUAL D PL (4200635) DWR↗ (1972-10-10, 9.5 cfs decreed): last active 2000 — 24 years idle
- HELMKE DITCH (4200522) DWR↗ (1929-04-01, 0.7 cfs decreed): last active 2001 — 23 years idle
Compliance screens (30 advisory flags)
Screened 57 of 726 structures with rights (83 have diversion history on file). A flag is a lead for expert review — augmentation plans, exchanges, and free-river conditions can make over-decree diversions lawful and are deliberately not modeled.
- REDLANDS POWER CANAL (4200541) DWR↗: Observed p99 daily rate 933.0 cfs (max 1310.0) exceeds total decreed absolute 850.0 cfs across 36964 recorded day(s).
- ROGERS DITCH ENL (4200750) DWR↗: Observed p99 daily rate 30.0 cfs (max 30.0) exceeds total decreed absolute 12.0 cfs across 186 recorded day(s).
- GRAND JCT F L & W W (4200513) DWR↗: Observed p99 daily rate 12.0 cfs (max 38.8) exceeds total decreed absolute 11.7 cfs across 53746 recorded day(s).
- EAST CREEK DITCH (4200515) DWR↗: Observed p99 daily rate 6.7 cfs (max 9.0) exceeds total decreed absolute 2.6 cfs across 9038 recorded day(s).
- SNYDER CREEK SUPPLY DITCH (4200546) DWR↗: Observed p99 daily rate 6.2 cfs (max 10.0) exceeds total decreed absolute 0.8 cfs across 3944 recorded day(s).
- WASHBURN & DOWNING DITCH (4200549) DWR↗: Observed p99 daily rate 6.2 cfs (max 10.6) exceeds total decreed absolute 2.8 cfs across 11390 recorded day(s).
- BRADBURY DITCH (4200508) DWR↗: Observed p99 daily rate 5.0 cfs (max 5.0) exceeds total decreed absolute 0.9 cfs across 3394 recorded day(s).
- SHROPSHIRE DITCH (4200544) DWR↗: Observed p99 daily rate 5.0 cfs (max 13.0) exceeds total decreed absolute 3.0 cfs across 7750 recorded day(s).
- BROKEN SPOKE RANCH COLLECTION DITCH (4200661) DWR↗: Observed p99 daily rate 5.0 cfs (max 5.0) exceeds total decreed absolute 2.0 cfs across 1816 recorded day(s).
- RABER COAL CREEK SUPPLY DITCH (4200538) DWR↗: Observed p99 daily rate 5.0 cfs (max 6.1) exceeds total decreed absolute 2.2 cfs across 4716 recorded day(s).
Seniority (top structures by decreed rate)
| Structure | Senior priority date | Rights | Decreed abs (cfs) | Decreed abs (AF) | Conditional? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REDLANDS POWER CANAL (4200541) DWR↗ | 1905-07-31 | 3 | 850.0 | 0 | — |
| JUNIATA DITCH 1ST ENL (4200528) DWR↗ | 1884-11-01 | 6 | 259.4 | 0 | — |
| KANNAH CREEK HIGHLINE D (4200529) DWR↗ | 1884-11-01 | 5 | 89.2 | 0 | yes |
| BRANDON DITCH (4200509) DWR↗ | 1883-06-30 | 16 | 55.2 | 0 | yes |
| BROWN & CAMPION D (4200510) DWR↗ | 1884-11-01 | 4 | 35.5 | 0 | — |
| LAURENT DITCH (4200554) DWR↗ | 1882-03-06 | 8 | 34.7 | 0 | — |
| CITY DITCH (4200512) DWR↗ | 1882-03-06 | 6 | 33.8 | 0 | — |
| BOLEN A & J DITCH (4200506) DWR↗ | 1901-07-25 | 2 | 29.4 | 0 | — |
| SMITH IRRIGATING DITCH (4200545) DWR↗ | 1884-11-01 | 4 | 22.6 | 0 | — |
| DEEP CR RES #2 SUP D (4200573) DWR↗ | 1931-07-15 | 1 | 20.0 | 0 | — |
| GRAND JUNCTION-GUNNISON RIVER PIPELINE (4200520) DWR↗ | 1957-01-22 | 1 | 18.6 | 0 | yes |
| MCDONALD DITCH (4200613) DWR↗ | 1910-11-26 | 2 | 15.9 | 0 | — |
| BAUER DITCH (4200504) DWR↗ | 1882-03-06 | 7 | 14.2 | 0 | — |
| KANNAH CREEK EXTENSION DITCH (4200530) DWR↗ | 1884-11-01 | 3 | 13.0 | 0 | — |
| ROGERS DITCH ENL (4200750) DWR↗ | 1981-06-01 | 1 | 12.0 | 0 | — |
No inventory or legal-document changes detected since the daily watch began.
Water-court filings this month (division-wide)
7 applications in the 2026-07 resume for this basin's division — new rights, changes, augmentation plans — from the water clerk's statutory monthly notice (C.R.S. 37-92-302), the earliest public signal of a new claim. Filings are division-wide, not district-filtered: check the county column. Full resume PDF at the Judicial Branch →
Anyone affected may file a statement of opposition until 2026-09-30 (30 days left). C.R.S. 37-92-302(3): due by the last day of the second month following the filing month — computed, not legal advice; confirm with the water clerk.
All 7 filings, with excerpts
| Case | What it asks | County | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|
2026CW3030
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reasonable diligence, make absolute | DELTA | Case No. 2026CW3030 (Ref No. 19CW3044, 12CW89) DELTA COUNTY 1. Applicant: Daniel J. Thomas, 14976 Deer Run Rd. Delta, CO 81416-9171; (970) 209-1656 c/o Camp & Skarka, LLC, 415 Palmer St., Delta, CO 81416. APPLICATION TO MAKE ABSOLUTE IN PART, AND FOR FINDING O… |
25CW3085
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new storage right | DELTA | Case No. 25CW3085. DELTA COUNTY. GUNNISON RIVER OR ITS TRIBUTARIES. Columbine Family Ranch LLC, c/o Corona Water Law, 218 E. Valley Road #104 PMB 166, Carbondale, CO 91623, (970) 948 -6523, cc@craigcoronalaw.com. APPLICATION FOR WATER STORAGE RIGHTS. Reservoir… |
26CW18
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make absolute | — | Case No. 26CW18 (Ref No. 20CW2) Applicant Stewart Sto rms 708 Agape Circle Rockwall TX, 75087 Application to make Absolute. Storms Pump - Section15 T15S R84W Easting 346460 Northing 4290042. Source: Spring Creek . Date of Appropriation: December 1, 1953. Amoun… |
26CW3031
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plan for augmentation, new underground right | DELTA | Case No. 26CW3031, DELTA COUNTY, NORTH FORK OF THE GUNNISON AND GUNNISON RIVERS. Application for Conditional Underground Water Right, Approval of Plan for Augmentation and Conditional Exchange Project Right. Anastasia Suderman and Bryce Frazee, c/o Ryan Jarvis… |
26CW3033
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— | — | Case No. 26CW 3033 (Ref No. CA 2710; 20CW3017) Name, Address, and Telephone Number of Applicant. JBARM, Inc. (JBARM), c/o Andrew Bowles, 200 W. Nationwide Boulevard, Columbus, Ohio 43215; (614) 436 -2418. Please direct communications related to this applicatio… |
26CW3034
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— | DELTA | Case No. 26CW3034 (Ref 91CW0007) Delta County - Gunnison River; Town of Cedaredge; c/o John R. Pierce, DUFFORD WALDECK, 744 Horizon Court, Suite 300, Grand Junction, CO 81506, (970) 248-5865; APPLICATION FOR DETERMINATION OF WATER RIGHT (SURFACE); Name, addres… |
26CW3035
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reasonable diligence | GUNNISON | Case No. 26CW3035 (Ref No. 19CW3011) GUNNISON COUNTY. Fossil Creek Mines LLC, c/o Joseph Harrington, 8400 E. Prentice Avenue, Suite 1500, Greenwood Village, 80111. Please address all correspondence to: Peter D. Nichols, Esq., Katherine Carter, Esq., Berg Hill … |
Call cascade
If a call were placed at a given seniority, which structures in this basin would be out of priority, and how much of their decreed rate would be curtailed? Computed from this basin's cached decrees.
What this does and doesn't model. Seniority arithmetic only: every right junior to the call is treated as curtailed. It does not model reach applicability — structures downstream of the calling point are not administered by it — and it applies no futile-call judgment. Read it as “who is junior to this date, and by how much,” not as a prediction of what the Division Engineer would actually order.
Pick a calling right
Real decrees from this basin, ordered by administration number — that is, by actual seniority. The years will look out of order, and that is correct: an administration number encodes the adjudication date as well as the appropriation date, so a right appropriated in 1970 can be administered ahead of one from 1950. A senior call curtails almost everything; a junior one curtails almost nothing.
Or enter an administration number directly
DWR administration numbers encode appropriation and adjudication dates; lower is more senior.