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FLORIDA CANAL
Structure dossier · WDID 3001013 · 1 · FLORIDA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 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 1888-09-29 — 335th 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: WALTER DITCH (1888-06-01). Immediately behind: ANNALA WELL NO 1 (1888-12-31).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14152.0 | 1888-09-29 | 1923-11-08 | 24.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | F-23 |
| 15774.0 | 1893-03-09 | 1923-11-08 | 16.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | F-29 |
| 20890.0 | 1907-03-13 | 1923-11-08 | 71.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | F-68, F-68 |
| 61337.0 | 2017-12-07 | 2017-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNIND |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 8,254 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 6,582 AF — 80% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10,028 | 12th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 135 | 51.6 |
| 2012 | 8,414 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 112 | 48.3 |
| 2013 | 4,709 | 1st lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 86 | 37.9 |
| 2014 | 9,083 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 147 | 48.1 |
| 2015 | 9,677 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 153 | 41.7 |
| 2016 | 10,346 | 13th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 143 | 46.3 |
| 2017 | 10,913 | 15th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 163 | 41.4 |
| 2018 | 5,196 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 104 | 43.8 |
| 2019 | 10,566 | 14th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 178 | 45.2 |
| 2020 | 8,013 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 184 | 43.4 |
| 2021 | 6,084 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 365 | 44.6 |
| 2022 | 6,726 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 365 | 37.1 |
| 2023 | 8,254 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 37.3 |
| 2024 | 7,511 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 366 | 33.2 |
| 2025 | 6,582 | 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 304 | 34.1 |
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