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CANON CITY HYDRAULIC
Structure dossier · WDID 1200505 · 1 · ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:44 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 1863-12-30 — 31st most senior of the 1967 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: CANON CITY WATER WORKS (1863-12-30). Immediately behind: CC ROYAL GORGE INTAKE (1863-12-30).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5112.0 | 1863-12-30 | 1894-02-03 | 77.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | 17 |
| 5339.0 | 1864-08-13 | 1894-02-03 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | 5 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 30,576 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 19,211 AF — 63% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 29,397 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 203 | 83.0 |
| 2012 | 34,166 | 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 231 | 85.2 |
| 2013 | 32,562 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 247 | 79.4 |
| 2014 | 29,358 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 204 | 89.0 |
| 2015 | 25,442 | 4th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 199 | 77.2 |
| 2016 | 23,247 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 184 | 72.9 |
| 2017 | 34,667 | 13th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 351 | 80.4 |
| 2018 | 39,443 | 14th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 318 | 81.5 |
| 2019 | 24,784 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 193 | 86.1 |
| 2020 | 30,576 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 232 | 80.1 |
| 2021 | 33,730 | 11th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 251 | 77.6 |
| 2022 | 25,526 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 195 | 77.9 |
| 2023 | 32,559 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 275 | 77.2 |
| 2024 | 39,787 | 15th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 301 | 76.8 |
| 2025 | 19,211 | 1st lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 145 | 73.7 |
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.