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TRINCHERA CANAL
Structure dossier · WDID 3500579 · 1 · TRINCHERA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:29 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.
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 1864-05-01 — 25th most senior of the 709 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: OJITO CREEK D 1 (1864-05-01). Immediately behind: TRINCHERA GARLAND CANAL (1864-05-01).
Decreed rights (14)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5235.0 | 1864-05-01 | 1899-12-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 5 |
| 6360.0 | 1867-05-31 | 1899-12-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6 |
| 6528.0 | 1867-11-15 | 1900-11-26 | 3.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 81/2 |
| 7091.0 | 1869-05-31 | 1899-12-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 9 |
| 9252.0 | 1875-05-01 | 1899-12-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 29 |
| 10743.0 | 1879-05-31 | 1899-12-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 34 |
| 13858.0 | 1887-12-10 | 1899-12-15 | 76.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 40 |
| 20791.0 | 1906-12-04 | 1915-01-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRR | 94 |
| 21140.0 | 1907-11-18 | 1915-01-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 671/2 |
| 21376.0 | 1908-07-11 | 1915-01-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 70 |
| 21453.0 | 1908-09-26 | 1915-01-04 | 212.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 72 |
| 21509.0 | 1908-11-21 | 1915-01-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 74 |
| 22254.0 | 1910-12-06 | 1915-01-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 80 |
| 22377.0 | 1911-04-08 | 1915-01-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRR | 95 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,403 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 3,548 AF — 104% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,782 | 4th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 183 | 20.6 |
| 2011 | 1,472 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 153 | 17.8 |
| 2012 | 3,403 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 183 | 24.0 |
| 2013 | 942 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 132 | 8.1 |
| 2014 | 3,769 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 161 | 24.3 |
| 2015 | 4,099 | 12th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 171 | 26.8 |
| 2016 | 2,629 | 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 170 | 17.5 |
| 2017 | 4,332 | 13th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 201 | 24.8 |
| 2018 | 3,096 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 168 | 17.6 |
| 2019 | 4,032 | 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 152 | 29.6 |
| 2020 | 584 | 1st lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 189 | 3.3 |
| 2021 | 6,109 | 15th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 198 | 25.3 |
| 2022 | 2,209 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 190 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 4,763 | 14th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 200 | 25.8 |
| 2024 | 3,548 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 162 | 21.9 |
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