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GARBER NO 1 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 6000604 · 1 · SAN MIGUEL RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 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 1913-07-21 — 715th most senior of the 2893 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: FIELD DITCH (1913-07-21). Immediately behind: GREEN MT DITCH NO 2 (1913-07-21).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
24379.232121913-07-211920-09-16 0.50.0 CIRR 143

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 126 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2001, came in at 76 AF — 60% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1987 6 2nd lowest of 15 · 5% of median 26 0.2
1988 162 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median 148 0.8
1989 77 4th lowest of 15 · 61% of median 126 0.5
1990 421 15th lowest of 15 · 334% of median 219 1.0
1991 191 11th lowest of 15 · 152% of median 173 1.0
1992 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 5 0.0
1993 99 7th lowest of 15 · 79% of median 134 0.5
1994 193 12th lowest of 15 · 153% of median 181 0.6
1995 367 14th lowest of 15 · 291% of median 187 1.5
1996 272 13th lowest of 15 · 216% of median 184 0.8
1997 86 6th lowest of 15 · 68% of median 67 0.8
1998 126 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 133 1.5
1999 143 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 144 0.8
2000 79 5th lowest of 15 · 63% of median 139 0.3
2001 76 3rd lowest of 15 · 60% of median 123 0.3

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