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TARKINGTON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800704 · 1 · GOLD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:33 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 1891-05-10 — 654th most senior of the 1505 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: SPRUCE CREEK DITCH (1885-05-15). Immediately behind: TARKINGTON DITCH ALT PT (1891-05-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28311.15105 | 1891-05-10 | 1943-04-19 | 17.921 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 261 |
| 44925.18414 | 1900-06-01 | 1973-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,613 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,765 AF — 109% of that, and 10th 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 | 1,909 | 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 140 | 13.3 |
| 2012 | 1,547 | 5th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 144 | 10.0 |
| 2013 | 1,255 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 127 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 2,025 | 13th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 134 | 11.0 |
| 2015 | 918 | 1st lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 86 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 1,394 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 107 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 1,666 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 90 | 10.3 |
| 2018 | 2,176 | 14th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 180 | 10.0 |
| 2019 | 1,456 | 4th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 120 | 10.0 |
| 2020 | 1,613 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 90 | 12.3 |
| 2021 | 1,911 | 12th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 130 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 1,569 | 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 97 | 12.0 |
| 2023 | 1,592 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 112 | 12.0 |
| 2024 | 2,188 | 15th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 141 | 12.0 |
| 2025 | 1,765 | 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 136 | 12.0 |
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