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WARD LAKE
Structure dossier · WDID 0803054 · RESERVOIR · CLEAR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:57 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
● Fully called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).
● Fully 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 1888-08-29 — 756th 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: 2301080 (1888-06-25). Immediately behind: 0805483 (1888-12-31).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14121.0 | 1888-08-29 | 1935-09-24 | 117.6 | 0.0 | A | IRRAUG | |
| 16718.12053 | 1882-12-31 | 1936-05-13 | 452.0 | 0.0 | A | IRR | |
| 16718.14121 | 1888-08-29 | 1936-05-13 | 117.6 | 0.0 | A | IRR |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
CA60052, 21CW3216, CA91471, 93CW0053, CA6832.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA60052 | 2 | 1936-05-13 | S |
21CW3216 | 2 | 1936-05-13 | S |
CA91471 | 1 | 1935-09-24 | S |
93CW0053 | 2 | 1935-09-24 | S |
CA6832 | 1 | 1884-02-04 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 6 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 258 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 225 AF — 87% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 6 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 278 | 4th lowest of 6 · 108% of median | 211 | 144 | 4.4 |
| 2020 | 212 | 1st lowest of 6 · 82% of median | 194 | 144 | 4.7 |
| 2021 | 237 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 92% of median | 384 | 306 | 5.4 |
| 2022 | 319 | 5th lowest of 6 · 124% of median | 198 | 365 | 13.7 |
| 2023 | 360 | 6th lowest of 6 · 140% of median | 729 | 365 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 225 | 2nd lowest of 6 · 87% of median | 246 | 304 | 2.7 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1628 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 2019-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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