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GARBER CREEK DITCH 2
Structure dossier · WDID 0801251 · 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
● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (23 active call(s) checked).
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 1863-08-30 — 128th 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: MANN LAKES RESERVOIR SYSTEM (1863-05-15). Immediately behind: 0801000 (1863-12-30).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4990.0 | 1863-08-30 | 1883-12-10 | 1.06 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 82 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 47 AF — 57% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 359 | 15th lowest of 15 · 438% of median | 183 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 254 | 14th lowest of 15 · 310% of median | 130 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 182 | 13th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 93 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 17 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 37 | 0.4 |
| 2005 | 161 | 11th lowest of 15 · 196% of median | 110 | 2.0 |
| 2007 | 46 | 5th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 135 | 0.5 |
| 2008 | 35 | 4th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 65 | 0.4 |
| 2009 | 34 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 94 | 0.4 |
| 2010 | 82 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 31 | 1.9 |
| 2015 | 146 | 10th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 63 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 169 | 12th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | 47 | 2.6 |
| 2021 | 50 | 7th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 51 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 95 | 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 304 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 47 | 6th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 79 | 0.9 |
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