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LAKE CANAL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0300922 · 1 · CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:18 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1861-06-01 — 12th most senior of the 2961 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..
Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: LARIMER WELD IRR CANAL (1861-06-01). Immediately behind: FOSSIL CREEK INLET DITCH (1861-06-01).
Decreed rights (24)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4170.0 | 1861-06-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 6026.0 | 1866-07-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 6483.0 | 1867-10-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 6727.0 | 1868-06-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 7092.0 | 1869-06-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 7184.0 | 1869-09-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 7761.0 | 1871-04-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 7953.0 | 1871-10-10 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 8218.0 | 1872-07-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 8237.0 | 1872-07-20 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 8341.0 | 1872-11-01 | 1882-04-11 | 590.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRRECFISFIRAUG | |
| 8341.0 | 1872-11-01 | 1882-04-11 | 158.35 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISFIRAUG | |
| 8492.0 | 1873-04-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 8645.0 | 1873-09-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 9236.0 | 1875-04-15 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUN | |
| 11003.0 | 1880-02-15 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 15716.0 | 1893-01-10 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUN | |
| 21392.0 | 1908-07-27 | 1922-04-22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUN | |
| 35050.08218 | 1872-07-01 | 1953-09-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 35050.08492 | 1873-04-01 | 1953-09-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 35050.10736 | 1879-05-24 | 1953-09-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 35050.11003 | 1880-02-15 | 1953-09-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 46751.20669 | 1906-08-04 | 1978-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUN | |
| 52217.0 | 1992-12-18 | 1992-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 8,216 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 10,274 AF — 125% of that, and 15th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7,444 | 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 1,812 | 111 | 109.0 |
| 2011 | 10,155 | 14th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | — | 137 | 76.0 |
| 2012 | 5,988 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | — | 127 | 80.0 |
| 2013 | 8,525 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | — | 107 | 100.0 |
| 2014 | 8,754 | 12th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | — | 110 | 84.0 |
| 2015 | 7,482 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | — | 138 | 83.0 |
| 2016 | 8,375 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | — | 112 | 92.6 |
| 2017 | 8,216 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 107 | 83.8 |
| 2018 | 7,277 | 4th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | — | 128 | 85.1 |
| 2019 | 8,772 | 13th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | — | 134 | 81.0 |
| 2020 | 8,739 | 11th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | — | 133 | 76.8 |
| 2021 | 6,845 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 83% of median | — | 121 | 80.5 |
| 2022 | 7,698 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | — | 120 | 82.2 |
| 2023 | 5,749 | 1st lowest of 15 · 70% of median | — | 147 | 64.9 |
| 2024 | 10,274 | 15th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | — | 158 | 70.0 |
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