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PALISADE IRR DIST CANAL

Structure dossier · WDID 7200817 · 1 · COLORADO RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1889-10-01 — 166th most senior of the 2166 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: GRAND VALLEY PROJECT (1889-10-01). Immediately behind: PEACH QUEEN POWER CANAL (1889-10-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
22729.145191889-10-011912-07-22 573.00.0 CIRROTH 183

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 30,144 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 874 AF — 3% of that, and 1st 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)
2002 35,570 15th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 365 98.0
2003 33,569 14th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 304 97.4
2012 29,555 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 272 90.5
2013 29,150 5th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 365 85.7
2014 28,391 4th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 365 86.6
2015 30,747 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 304 90.3
2016 28,146 3rd lowest of 15 · 93% of median 214 87.6
2017 31,411 12th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 275 93.5
2018 30,144 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 365 87.7
2019 29,602 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 365 86.4
2020 30,599 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 366 88.4
2021 31,414 13th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 365 89.3
2022 30,966 11th lowest of 15 · 103% of median 365 111.5
2023 27,831 2nd lowest of 15 · 92% of median 365 80.6
2024 874 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median 305 2.6

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.