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Structure dossier · WDID 1104613 · DITCH · LAKE FORK · DWR record
Homestake Tunnel Outlet is a ditch on Lake Fork in Colorado. This page is its public record: the water it has a right to, whether it may take it today, and its history, compiled from the Colorado Division of Water Resources.
Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR structure ↗ Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR diversion records ↗ Source Our computation, scored against a reference · scored against DWR's call analysis, see /methods
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-10-16 02:37 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260928 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (dd58e60) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Who owns it
- Colorado Springs Utilities / Aurora Water — from Hydrohistorian's hand-curated transbasin register.
DWR’s own records name no owner for a ditch, reservoir or well, so this comes from the source shown and can be out of date. Organisations only: a private landowner’s name is never listed.
The record and the river
This is water crossing the divide
Homestake Tunnel Outlet is the receiving end of the Homestake Tunnel (tunnel). It takes water from Homestake Creek, Eagle River basin (Div 5) and delivers it to Turquoise Lake, Arkansas River basin (Div 2). Water arriving here is an import: it was never in this basin’s own runoff.
The other end: Homestake Proj Tunnel 3704614
Metered as a facility: HOMTUNCO — the record for the crossing itself, which may run longer than the record for either structure.
Owner / operator: Colorado Springs Utilities / Aurora Water
From the site’s hand-curated register of transbasin facilities. Every crossing on one page →
Where this structure is measured
| Gage | Flowing now | Record | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOMESTAKE TUNNEL HOMTUNCO | 0.0 cfs | 1966–2026, 21,544 days | DWR telemetry mapping |
A green link is DWR's own: either its telemetry inventory maps this WDID to that station, or the station is named for this WDID (0700553 → 0700553A). An amber one is ours — the station sits within 250 m and shares a distinctive word with this structure's name, which is a strong hint rather than a DWR statement that this gage meters this structure. Wrong? Tell us.
Flowing now
0.0 cfs as of 2026-10-15 23:30 (3.1 h ago)
Zero is a real reading: the gage is reporting, and it says this structure is not diverting right now.
Provisional 15-minute telemetry from HOMTUNCO ↗ (HOMESTAKE TUNNEL). Raw, not the approved record — it is never merged into the diversion history below. DWR publishes the official diversion record after the water year closes and is approved, which is why that record ends months back while this reads minutes ago.
In short
In a median year over its last 15 recorded years it diverts 6,151 acre-feet.
Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (2 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.
Download this structure
Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.
⇩ Full record (.zip) Print / save as PDF
Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv
What is in the bundle
rights.csv— every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.annual_use.csv— recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.curtailment_now.csv— each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.court_cases.csv— the cases attached to its rights.co_parties.csv— the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.call_climatology.csv— how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.README.txt— provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it (diversion). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: no decreed right on file, so there is no priority to test.
Legal record & documents
The court documents DWR holds for this structure are listed below.
5 imaged documents on DWR’s shelf for this structure — 4 water-court documents across 1 case, including 1 decree. Every row opens the scanned PDF at DWR. Listing as of 2026-09-22.
- Decree in case 84CW0178 ↗ · imaged 2006-10-11 · 22 pages
“Imaged” is the date DWR’s archive filed the scan, which is often years after the court acted (a 1911 decree can be imaged in 2011). The court’s own date is the adjudication date in the rights table.
Court record (4)
| Imaged | Case | Type | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-20 | 84CW0178 |
NOTICE (DISMISSAL, ETC) | 2 | open ↗ |
| 2020-01-02 | 84CW0178 |
NOTICE (DISMISSAL, ETC) | 2 | open ↗ |
| 2006-10-11 | 84CW0178 |
DECREE | 22 | open ↗ |
| 2006-09-25 | 84CW0178 |
OTHER | 206 | open ↗ |
Division filings (1)
| Date | Type | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-06 | Correspondence 7/30/2025 Site Visit Summary | 2 | open ↗ |
The rest of the Homestake Tunnel
DWR records this ditch as more than one structure, and files each decreed right, court case and decree under the structure the court named — so this page and Homestake Proj Tunnel, Homestake Tunnel Outlet each hold part of one legal record. Everything below is filed under the other structures, not this one.
Filed under Homestake Proj Tunnel (3704614, source end)
Decrees on file
- Decree in case 13CW3045 ↗ · imaged 2014-02-11 · 19 pages
- Decree in case 95CW0272 ↗ · imaged 2011-03-22 · 66 pages
- Decree in case 85CW0151 ↗ · imaged 2009-12-21 · 34 pages
- Decree in case 06CW0225 ↗ · imaged 2007-09-18 · 15 pages
- Decree in case 06CW0225 ↗ · imaged 2007-09-18 · 15 pages
- Decree in case 90CW0117 ↗ · imaged 2007-02-27 · 8 pages
- Decree in case CA1193 ↗ · imaged 2006-09-08 · 115 pages
- Decree in case 00CW0037 ↗ · imaged 2006-02-02 · 9 pages
Decreed right (the adjudication record)
| Appropriated | Adjudicated | Amount | Decreed for | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-09-22 | 1958-07-23 | 300.0 cfs | Municipal, Commercial, Industrial, Fire, Domestic | 85CW0151, CA1193 |
Filed under Homestake Tunnel Outlet (1104614, receiving end)
No decree or right is on file under this structure yet.
Imaged documents at DWR. DWR keeps the scanned documents for this structure — decrees, rulings, plats, correspondence — in its Laserfiche archive. Open the list directly: imaged documents for 1104613 ↗ (indexed by structure, not by case — the case numbers on its rights appear within the list).
Other DWR records for this structure: DWR’s page for this structure ↗ — net amounts, water rights, transactions & adjudication history, and diversion records, all on that one page. On this site: the district’s full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 6,151 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 6,726 | 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | — | 143 | 126.0 |
| 1972 | 104 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 2% of median | — | 28 | 3.7 |
| 1973 | 7,115 | 11th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | — | 154 | 129.8 |
| 1974 | 23,442 | 15th lowest of 15 · 381% of median | — | 288 | 194.6 |
| 1976 | 4,999 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | — | 174 | 86.0 |
| 1977 | 3,100 | 4th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | — | 183 | 59.0 |
| 1978 | 7,440 | 13th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | — | 215 | 129.0 |
| 1979 | 6,576 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | — | 216 | 110.0 |
| 1980 | 6,151 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 206 | 101.0 |
| 1981 | 4,610 | 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | — | 194 | 107.0 |
| 1982 | 7,182 | 12th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | — | 184 | 99.0 |
| 1983 | 9,273 | 14th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | — | 177 | 118.0 |
| 1986 | 5,510 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | — | 211 | 73.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 0 | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 0 | 1 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade C (5/10 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 | absent | no water rights cached for this WDID |
| diversion record | present | 2538 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 22% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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