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NORTH DELTA CANAL (FROM TONGUE CREEK)
Structure dossier · WDID 4000730 · 1 · TONGUE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:08 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 1936-08-16 — 1813th most senior of the 4661 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: ROUBIDEAU RESERVOIR (1936-07-25). Immediately behind: NIGGER GULCH NO 1 SPG (1936-08-21).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31924.31639 | 1936-08-16 | 1954-03-20 | 30.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | J220 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA3503.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3503 | 1 | 1954-03-20 | 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 2,182 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 2,499 AF — 114% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3,996 | 12th lowest of 15 · 183% of median | 202 | 16.0 |
| 2010 | 595 | 4th lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 32 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 10,922 | 15th lowest of 15 · 500% of median | 190 | 60.0 |
| 2012 | 4,247 | 13th lowest of 15 · 195% of median | 210 | 29.5 |
| 2013 | 1,743 | 7th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 200 | 10.0 |
| 2014 | 7,262 | 14th lowest of 15 · 333% of median | 191 | 24.0 |
| 2015 | 2,987 | 10th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 130 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 3,658 | 11th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 186 | 14.0 |
| 2017 | 2,182 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 139 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 71 | 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 72 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 952 | 6th lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 80 | 6.0 |
| 2020 | 112 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 96 | 0.6 |
| 2021 | 739 | 5th lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 150 | 2.5 |
| 2022 | 530 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 90 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 2,499 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 84 | 15.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-304 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.048).
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 9132 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 80% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2023 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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