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GARBER CREEK DITCH 1
Structure dossier · WDID 0801250 · DITCH · GARBER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:14 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.
Current administration
● Junior rights called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).
● Junior rights called out — call at NEVADA DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1865-12-30).
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 1861-06-30 — 38th most senior of the 21881 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: 0208828 (1861-06-29). Immediately behind: 2300770 (1861-08-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4199.0 | 1861-06-30 | 1883-12-10 | 2.79 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 8005.0 | 1871-12-01 | 1883-12-10 | 1.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 67 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 142 AF — 212% of that, and 11th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
| 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 | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 126 | 10th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 137 | 2.7 |
| 2010 | 353 | 15th lowest of 15 · 527% of median | 154 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 42 | 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 84 | 0.6 |
| 2012 | 12 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 36 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 49 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 45 | 2.4 |
| 2014 | 67 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 48 | 1.3 |
| 2015 | 153 | 12th lowest of 15 · 228% of median | 128 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 335 | 14th lowest of 15 · 500% of median | 121 | 4.6 |
| 2017 | 61 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 44 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 105 | 9th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 108 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 3 | 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 22 | 0.1 |
| 2021 | 45 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 49 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 15 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 139 | 0.3 |
| 2023 | 157 | 13th lowest of 15 · 234% of median | 304 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 142 | 11th lowest of 15 · 212% of median | 208 | 1.1 |
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