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MANVEL CANAL
Structure dossier · WDID 6700573 · 1 · ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:03 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 1890-10-14 — 40th most senior of the 2116 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: THURSTON RESERVOIR (1889-08-12). Immediately behind: M R MCCAULEY IRRIGATING (1891-08-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14897.0 | 1890-10-14 | 1895-07-01 | 54.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 15 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
07/01/1895, 02CW0181.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
07/01/1895 | 1 | 1895-07-01 | O |
02CW0181 | 2 | 1895-07-01 | 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 1,511 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1993, came in at 73 AF — 5% of that, and 1st lowest of the 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 561 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 37% of median | — | 79 | 14.0 |
| 1980 | 1,079 | 6th lowest of 13 · 71% of median | — | 69 | 12.0 |
| 1981 | 1,821 | 8th lowest of 13 · 120% of median | — | 81 | 15.0 |
| 1982 | 1,071 | 5th lowest of 13 · 71% of median | — | 37 | 20.0 |
| 1983 | 1,511 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | — | 19 | 50.0 |
| 1984 | 2,969 | 12th lowest of 13 · 196% of median | — | 42 | 40.0 |
| 1986 | 2,872 | 11th lowest of 13 · 190% of median | — | 36 | 65.0 |
| 1987 | 2,984 | 13th lowest of 13 · 198% of median | — | 30 | 71.0 |
| 1988 | 2,372 | 9th lowest of 13 · 157% of median | — | 45 | 50.0 |
| 1989 | 2,654 | 10th lowest of 13 · 176% of median | — | 56 | 40.0 |
| 1990 | 579 | 4th lowest of 13 · 38% of median | — | 23 | 15.0 |
| 1992 | 210 | 2nd lowest of 13 · 14% of median | — | 9 | 15.0 |
| 1993 | 73 | 1st lowest of 13 · 5% of median | — | 4 | 18.0 |
| 2002 | — | no recorded volume | 260 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | — | no recorded volume | 593 | 0 | — |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 13 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 7104 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 51% of the irrigation seasons in 1938-2003 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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