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1700540

Structure dossier · WDID 1700540 · DWR record

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 2026-10-12 21:17 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

  • The Colorado Canal Company (nonprofit corporation) — probable match, from the Colorado Secretary of State business record ↗; verify before relying on it. A nonprofit corporation of this name, in good standing, with its principal office in Ordway; matched on the name and the location, not confirmed by the company.

DWR’s own records name no owner for a ditch, reservoir or well, so this comes from the source shown and can be out of date.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.

Where this structure is measured

GageFlowing nowRecordHow we know
COLORADO CANAL AT MILE 3.8 NEAR BOONE COLCANCO 0.0 cfs 1985–2026, 13,866 days DWR telemetry mapping
COLORADO CANAAL 1700540B — — named for this WDID

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 2026-10-12 17:45 (3.5 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 COLCANCO ↗ (COLORADO CANAL AT MILE 3.8 NEAR BOONE). 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

1700540 holds 9 decreed rights. No active call senior to its rights reaches its district today (17 active calls checked), so it is in priority now. 17 further calls state no district and sit outside this one, so they are counted here rather than assumed either way. That is today's position; the weeks ahead cannot be projected for it: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it. In a median year over its last 15 recorded years it diverts 68,116 acre-feet. It was a party to 6 court cases that also touched 11 other structures.

Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (8 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.

Current administration

● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (17 active call(s) checked).

17 further calls state no district and sit outside this one, so they are counted here rather than assumed either way.

Which of its rights are out of priority?

The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it. Today’s position is a separate question, and it is answered in Current administration above — that screen reads the district’s active calls and needs no reference gage.

Where it sits in line

Priority 1881-03-10 — 7th most senior of the 1909 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: LAS ANIMAS CONSOLIDATED (1875-04-10). Immediately behind: LAKE MEREDITH (1881-03-10).

Decreed rights (9)

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. Alt-pointAn absolute amount decreed at another structure that may be diverted here instead -- an alternate point of diversion or an exchange. DWR calls this the APEX amount; a right showing 0.0 absolute but an alt-point amount is exercised here under another structure's decree. Decreed forWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
11392.00000 1881-03-101890-06-19 0.0 cfs 0.0 2.0 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +4 81
11428.00000 1881-04-151890-06-19 0.0 cfs 0.0 1.6 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +4 86
11443.00000 1881-04-301890-06-19 0.0 cfs 0.0 0.8 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +4 87
11474.00000 1881-05-311890-06-19 0.0 cfs 0.0 1.3 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +4 90
11657.00000 1881-11-301890-06-19 0.0 cfs 0.0 1.0 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +4 95
11808.00000 1882-04-301890-06-19 0.0 cfs 0.0 1.6 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +4 110
14770.00000 1890-06-091896-03-23 756.28 cfs 0.0 — Irrigation, Municipal +3 0
17600.00000 1898-03-091916-11-25 0.0 cfs 0.0 756.28 cfs Irrigation, Municipal +3 84CW0064, CA13693
56978.56395 2004-05-272006-12-31 0.0 cfs 0.0 488.0 cfs All beneficial uses 06CW0120

Amounts marked cfs are flow rates; AF are stored volumes (storage rights are decreed in acre-feet). An absolute amount of 0.0 beside an alt-point amount is not a dead right: the water is decreed at another structure, and that row records permission to divert it here instead (an alternate point or exchange). A case listing several numbers reflects the original decree plus later change cases.

Water-court filings naming this structure

2 applications in the monthly water-court resumes explicitly reference this WDID. The resume is the earliest public notice of a new claim (C.R.S. 37-92-302) — years before anything reaches the decree record below. Most applications name structures by name rather than WDID, so absence here is weak evidence of absence.

MonthCaseWhat it asksOppose byExcerpt
2026-04 2026CW3024 — closed 2026-06-30 CASE NO. 2026CW3024; Previous Case Nos. (86CW118(a), 99CW62, 11CW62, 19CW3026) – CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO SPRINGS UTILITIES c/o Kim Gortz, 1521 Hancock Expressway, Mail Code 1825, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 (Pl…
2026-02 2019CW3036 — closed 2026-04-30 CASE NO. 2019CW3036; LOWER ARKANSAS WATER MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (“LAWMA”), c/o Roy Cue, Manager, P. O. Box 1161, Lamar, Colorado 81052 (Please address all pleadings and inquiries regarding this matter to Applicant’s att…

Source: Judicial Branch combined monthly resumes (archive), indexed nightly; WDIDs attached only when a 7-digit token in the filing matches DWR’s structure inventory.

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 68,116 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 47,471 AF — 70% of that, and 4th 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)
2011 74,998 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 152 760.0
2012 50,445 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 139 284.0
2013 35,593 2nd lowest of 15 · 52% of median 96 744.0
2014 91,085 12th lowest of 15 · 134% of median 162 1202.0
2015 91,935 13th lowest of 15 · 135% of median 231 763.9
2016 71,233 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 181 758.0
2017 96,366 14th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 301 698.0
2018 46,898 3rd lowest of 15 · 69% of median 173 462.1
2019 98,776 15th lowest of 15 · 145% of median 259 758.0
2020 27,675 1st lowest of 15 · 41% of median 238 402.0
2021 61,192 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 365 758.0
2022 47,997 5th lowest of 15 · 70% of median 351 288.0
2023 68,116 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 91 757.5
2024 77,565 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 196 758.0
2025 47,471 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median 304 757.0

Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 0.0% of a median season / 0.0% dry-year.

How good is our record of it?

Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.

The rubric, component by component
CheckStateDetail
identity partial missing name, structure type, water source
decreed rights on file 9 right(s), seniority decoded
diversion record present 21773 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against)
record continuity continuous 89% of the irrigation seasons in 1911-2025 carry measured days
published-record stability stable no upstream revisions recorded against this structure

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