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GALE RESERVOIR SYS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2900605 · 4 · RIO BLANCO · 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 (a1c9146) — 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 1937-12-31 — 285th most senior of the 853 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: GALE RESERVOIR NO. 2 (1936-12-31). Immediately behind: GALE RESERVOIR NO. 3 (1937-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41016.32141 | 1937-12-31 | 1968-12-19 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | 68-54 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 413 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2009, came in at 0 AF — 0% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 793 | 15th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 365 | 2.2 |
| 1996 | 579 | 10th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 366 | 1.0 |
| 1997 | 745 | 13th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 365 | 1.2 |
| 1998 | 724 | 11th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 365 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 774 | 14th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | 365 | 2.0 |
| 2000 | 577 | 9th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 366 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 724 | 11th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 365 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 413 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 319 | 2.0 |
| 2003 | 272 | 4th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 206 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 335 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 254 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 396 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 344 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 272 | 4th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 190 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 144 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 120 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 123 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 61 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
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