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NATURITA CANAL
Structure dossier · WDID 6000707 · 1 · BEAVER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:57 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 1884-05-31 — 9th 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: POTTORFF PUMPING STATION (1884-04-10). Immediately behind: B C D DITCH (1885-10-01).
Decreed rights (9)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12570.0 | 1884-05-31 | 1897-06-11 | 50.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6 |
| 20889.0 | 1907-03-12 | 1911-06-03 | 12.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 116 |
| 23681.20889 | 1907-03-12 | 1916-09-30 | 17.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 117 |
| 23681.23212 | 1913-07-21 | 1916-09-30 | 95.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 130 |
| 23681.23215 | 1913-07-24 | 1916-09-30 | 25.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 130 |
| 28911.28052 | 1926-10-21 | 1933-10-16 | 31.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | 214, 218 |
| 30604.30604 | 1933-10-16 | 1939-11-01 | 170.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 328, 328C |
| 32811.31726 | 1936-11-11 | 1952-07-10 | 600.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 391, 392 |
| 52595.1257 | 1884-05-31 | 1994-12-31 | 50.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRFIRSTK |
Legal record & documents
16 decreed actions on record across
9 court cases:
94CW0147, CA5882, 84CW0093, CA4641, CA2207, CA4348, CA2533, CA1627, CA0898.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
94CW0147 | 1 | 1994-12-31 | S |
CA5882 | 3 | 1952-07-10 | S |
84CW0093 | 1 | 1952-07-10 | S |
CA4641 | 1 | 1939-11-01 | S |
CA2207 | 3 | 1939-11-01 | S |
CA4348 | 2 | 1933-10-16 | S |
CA2533 | 3 | 1916-09-30 | S |
CA1627 | 1 | 1911-06-03 | O |
CA0898 | 1 | 1897-06-11 | 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 19,588 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 6,618 AF — 34% of that, and 4th 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 | 24,032 | 13th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 259 | 299.0 |
| 2011 | 23,433 | 12th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 365 | 378.0 |
| 2012 | 12,097 | 5th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 362 | 161.0 |
| 2013 | 12,671 | 6th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 304 | 171.0 |
| 2014 | 21,973 | 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 208 | 277.0 |
| 2015 | 19,588 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 223 | 266.0 |
| 2016 | 20,450 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 181 | 264.0 |
| 2017 | 25,099 | 15th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 209 | 288.0 |
| 2018 | 4,173 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 208 | 75.0 |
| 2019 | 19,881 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 174 | 230.2 |
| 2020 | 4,064 | 1st lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 175 | 265.3 |
| 2021 | 5,949 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 230 | 108.9 |
| 2022 | 13,762 | 7th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 365 | 163.9 |
| 2023 | 24,083 | 14th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 308 | 276.0 |
| 2024 | 6,618 | 4th lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 221 | 132.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 9 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 9884 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 97% of the irrigation seasons in 1977-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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