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CASCADE CANAL
Structure dossier · WDID 3000523 · 9 · CASCADE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:47 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.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
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 1902-10-02 — 472nd most senior of the 2277 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: BROWN DITCH (1902-06-01). Immediately behind: LITTLE CASCADE CR CANAL (1902-10-02).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26974.19267 | 1902-10-02 | 1966-03-21 | 400.0 | 0.0 | C | INDDOMOTH | 65-8 |
| 45144.0 | 1973-08-07 | 1973-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMRECDOM |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
W1413, 99CW0042, CA1751-B, 84CW0108.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W1413 | 1 | 1973-12-31 | S |
99CW0042 | 1 | 1973-12-31 | S |
CA1751-B | 1 | 1966-03-21 | S |
84CW0108 | 1 | 1966-03-21 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 15,846 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2018, came in at 5,631 AF — 36% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 28,076 | 14th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 366 | 220.0 |
| 2005 | 31,314 | 15th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 365 | 220.0 |
| 2006 | 17,762 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 308 | 210.0 |
| 2007 | 25,276 | 13th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 365 | 195.0 |
| 2008 | 20,355 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 366 | 156.9 |
| 2009 | 12,832 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 365 | 148.9 |
| 2010 | 16,846 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 365 | 177.9 |
| 2011 | 22,549 | 12th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 365 | 200.3 |
| 2012 | 15,782 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 366 | 188.0 |
| 2013 | 89 | 1st lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 60 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 3,064 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 61 | 110.0 |
| 2015 | 11,258 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 275 | 85.0 |
| 2016 | 989 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 182 | 28.0 |
| 2017 | 15,846 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 80.0 |
| 2018 | 5,631 | 4th lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 304 | 130.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-1692 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.003).
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 15486 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1972-2018 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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