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LA GARDE DITCH 1
Structure dossier · WDID 4800558 · 1 · LA GARDE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:29 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.
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 1896-06-16 — 31st most senior of the 143 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: LINK DITCH 2 (1896-06-15). Immediately behind: DETRO DITCH 1 (1896-06-17).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17105.16969 | 1896-06-16 | 1906-10-11 | 15.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 258 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 152 AF — 59% of that, and 1st 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 | 260 | 10th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 45 | 8.3 |
| 2010 | 319 | 13th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 54 | 5.0 |
| 2011 | 188 | 4th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 35 | 5.0 |
| 2012 | 157 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 30 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 258 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 49 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 258 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 49 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 258 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 49 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 257 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 49 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 277 | 12th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 52 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 1,072 | 15th lowest of 15 · 416% of median | 65 | 14.9 |
| 2019 | 276 | 11th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 48 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 183 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 54 | 4.3 |
| 2022 | 364 | 14th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 36 | 8.2 |
| 2023 | 194 | 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 57 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 152 | 1st lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 77 | 2.4 |
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