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Structure dossier · WDID 1100561 · 1 · SOUTH ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:40 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.

Which of its rights get called out?

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 1873-05-31 — 95th 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: MUNDLEIN DITCH NO 2 (1873-03-01). Immediately behind: STEVENS & LEITER DITCH (1873-09-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
8552.01873-05-311890-06-19 0.60.0 CIRR 46

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 83 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 107 AF — 129% of that, and 11th lowest of the 15 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)
2008 122 13th lowest of 15 · 147% of median 102 0.8
2009 152 14th lowest of 15 · 183% of median 143 0.6
2010 93 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 106 0.6
2011 120 12th lowest of 15 · 145% of median 106 0.6
2012 153 15th lowest of 15 · 184% of median 150 0.6
2013 73 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median 81 0.6
2014 11 1st lowest of 15 · 13% of median 30 0.4
2015 74 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median 86 0.6
2016 66 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median 86 0.6
2017 32 2nd lowest of 15 · 39% of median 50 0.5
2018 35 3rd lowest of 15 · 42% of median 70 0.6
2019 87 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 64 3.4
2020 83 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 128 0.6
2021 71 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 164 0.2
2023 107 11th lowest of 15 · 129% of median 106 1.6

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.