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LAKE FORK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4002425 · 1 · TONGUE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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 1886-11-01 — 3466th 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: ANDY SPRING (2000-11-13). Immediately behind: PATHFINDER SPRING (1910-01-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55152.13454 | 1886-11-01 | 2001-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | STK |
Recorded use (last 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,850 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 2,810 AF — 73% of that, and 4th lowest of the 9 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 181 | 1st lowest of 9 · 5% of median | 61 | 1.5 |
| 1970 | 4,680 | 9th lowest of 9 · 122% of median | 365 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 4,498 | 8th lowest of 9 · 117% of median | 365 | 12.5 |
| 1972 | 4,115 | 7th lowest of 9 · 107% of median | 366 | 13.0 |
| 1973 | 3,939 | 6th lowest of 9 · 102% of median | 304 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 1,240 | 2nd lowest of 9 · 32% of median | 157 | 10.8 |
| 2022 | 2,105 | 3rd lowest of 9 · 55% of median | 207 | 10.0 |
| 2023 | 3,850 | 5th lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 200 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 2,810 | 4th lowest of 9 · 73% of median | 207 | 10.3 |
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