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GARDEN SOWANIA DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000762 · 1 · SURFACE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:42 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.
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 1882-02-04 — 31st 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: SPECK DITCH (1882-01-15). Immediately behind: BEVER DITCH PIPELINE (1882-03-02).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11723.0 | 1882-02-04 | 1889-06-17 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 2 |
| 25807.17307 | 1897-05-20 | 1930-02-10 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | G24 |
| 31924.17307 | 1897-05-20 | 1954-03-20 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | J60 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 60 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 46 AF — 77% of that, and 6th 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 | 102 | 11th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 194 | 0.5 |
| 2011 | 89 | 9th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 179 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | 35 | 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 67 | 0.3 |
| 2013 | 33 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 52 | 0.6 |
| 2014 | 200 | 14th lowest of 15 · 333% of median | 205 | 0.8 |
| 2015 | 153 | 13th lowest of 15 · 255% of median | 212 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 126 | 12th lowest of 15 · 210% of median | 195 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 93 | 10th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 216 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 53 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 135 | 0.4 |
| 2019 | 236 | 15th lowest of 15 · 393% of median | 165 | 2.6 |
| 2020 | 18 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 58 | 0.5 |
| 2021 | 12 | 1st lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 34 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 39 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 55 | 0.9 |
| 2023 | 60 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 96 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 46 | 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
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