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FRUIT GROWERS RESERVOIR
Structure dossier · WDID 4003365 · 3 · ALFALFA RUN · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:16 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 1898-10-15 — 603rd 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: SMITH AND MCKNIGHT DITCH (1896-06-01). Immediately behind: BONA FIDE DITCH (1881-11-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17820.0 | 1898-10-15 | 1907-09-28 | 3400.0 | 0.0 | A | IRR | 24 |
| 38064.3195 | 1937-06-23 | 1964-01-31 | 3105.0 | 0.0 | A | IRR | K66, K67 |
| 38137.0 | 1954-06-01 | 1964-01-31 | 855.0 | 0.0 | A | IRR | K114 |
Legal record & documents
9 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
W0706, CA4808, CA2563, CA0457.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W0706 | 2 | 1964-01-31 | S |
CA4808 | 4 | 1964-01-31 | S |
CA2563 | 2 | 1937-05-28 | S |
CA0457 | 1 | 1907-09-28 | O |
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 523 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2017, came in at 523 AF — 100% of that, and 4th lowest of the 7 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2,771 | 7th lowest of 7 · 530% of median | 10,424 | 1 | 1396.9 |
| 2000 | — | no recorded volume | 8,945 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | — | no recorded volume | 6,572 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | — | no recorded volume | 3,433 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | — | no recorded volume | 4,932 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | — | no recorded volume | 5,462 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | — | no recorded volume | 446 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | — | no recorded volume | 6,650 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | — | no recorded volume | 5,189 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 530 | 5th lowest of 7 · 101% of median | — | 31 | 18.6 |
| 2012 | 788 | 6th lowest of 7 · 151% of median | 3,678 | 54 | 12.0 |
| 2014 | 277 | 1st lowest of 7 · 53% of median | — | 22 | 8.8 |
| 2015 | 412 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 79% of median | 6,466 | 18 | 21.8 |
| 2016 | 379 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 72% of median | — | 20 | 15.7 |
| 2017 | 523 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | — | 17 | 23.4 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 855 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 8% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2017 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.