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FAULKNER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1600846 · 1 · BEAR CANON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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 1889-04-15 — 142nd most senior of the 1044 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: ARNOLD DITCH NO 1 (1889-03-15). Immediately behind: WHITE CREEK DITCH (1889-06-10).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14408.1435 | 1889-04-15 | 1898-02-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 136 |
Recorded use (last 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 101 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1973, came in at 105 AF — 104% of that, and 7th lowest of the 9 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 192 | 9th lowest of 9 · 190% of median | 98 | 1.0 |
| 1935 | 22 | 1st lowest of 9 · 22% of median | 12 | 1.0 |
| 1941 | 44 | 2nd lowest of 9 · 44% of median | 23 | 1.0 |
| 1942 | 65 | 3rd lowest of 9 · 64% of median | 34 | 1.0 |
| 1944 | 121 | 8th lowest of 9 · 120% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
| 1945 | 81 | 4th lowest of 9 · 80% of median | 42 | 1.0 |
| 1948 | 101 | 5th lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 52 | 1.0 |
| 1949 | 101 | 5th lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 52 | 1.0 |
| 1973 | 105 | 7th lowest of 9 · 104% of median | 54 | 1.0 |
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