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Structure dossier · WDID 6200580 · 1 · LAKE FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:15 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 1883-06-01 — 32nd most senior of the 1980 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: BROWNING DITCH (1883-06-01). Immediately behind: POWDERHORN IRG DITCH (1883-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12205.0 | 1883-06-01 | 1904-03-28 | 1.31 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 180 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 246 AF — 137% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 153 | 7th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 67 | 1.6 |
| 2009 | 229 | 12th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 105 | 1.4 |
| 2010 | 111 | 4th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 76 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 227 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 109 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 38 | 1st lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 43 | 0.7 |
| 2013 | 86 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 75 | 0.8 |
| 2014 | 117 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 60 | 1.5 |
| 2015 | 136 | 6th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 94 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 221 | 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 74 | 2.4 |
| 2018 | 180 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 134 | 1.9 |
| 2019 | 38 | 1st lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 20 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 326 | 15th lowest of 15 · 181% of median | 103 | 2.8 |
| 2022 | 220 | 9th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 107 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 275 | 14th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 137 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 246 | 13th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 122 | 1.4 |
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