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Structure dossier · WDID 1100529 · 7 · ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:16 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 1879-05-15 — 141st most senior of the 1489 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: YOUNGER DITCH NO 2 (1879-05-15). Immediately behind: MCKENNA DITCH (1879-05-31).

Decreed rights (12)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
10727.01879-05-151901-01-31 1.620.0 CALL 62A, 69A
11392.01881-03-101890-06-19 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM 81
11428.01881-04-151890-06-19 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM 86
11443.01881-04-301890-06-19 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM 87
11458.01881-05-151902-07-15 0.080.0 CALL 81A
11474.01881-05-311890-06-19 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM 90
11657.01881-11-301890-06-19 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM 95
11808.01882-04-301890-06-19 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM 110
48942.481751981-11-241984-12-31 0.00.0 CALL
49673.493871985-03-201986-12-31 0.00.0 CALL
50393.01987-12-211987-12-31 0.00.0 CALL
56970.02005-12-232005-12-31 0.00.0 CALL

Recorded use (last 9 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 21,763 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2012, came in at 94,382 AF — 434% of that, and 9th lowest of the 9 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1970 21,763 5th lowest of 9 · 100% of median 245 85.1
1971 21,613 4th lowest of 9 · 99% of median 304 44.1
1976 3,449 2nd lowest of 9 · 16% of median 61 55.6
1977 29,237 6th lowest of 9 · 134% of median 304 95.4
1978 3,388 1st lowest of 9 · 16% of median 61 61.3
1979 45,928 8th lowest of 9 · 211% of median 365 85.7
1980 37,731 7th lowest of 9 · 173% of median 305 98.6
2011 21,511 3rd lowest of 9 · 99% of median 61 180.5
2012 94,382 9th lowest of 9 · 434% of median 305 180.7

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