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GARDNER LAKE DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 7700538 · 1 · LITTLE NAVAJO RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:13 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — 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 1906-06-30 — 63rd most senior of the 187 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: CONNELL DITCH (1902-06-01). Immediately behind: ELK LAKE DITCH (1906-06-30).

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
41016.206341906-06-301968-12-19 2.00.0 CIRRDOMSTK 68-5

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 60 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 18 AF — 30% of that, and 2nd 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)
2001 102 12th lowest of 15 · 170% of median 55 2.0
2002 29 4th lowest of 15 · 48% of median 44 0.4
2003 60 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 19 2.0
2004 152 15th lowest of 15 · 253% of median 63 2.0
2005 66 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 49 1.0
2006 78 10th lowest of 15 · 130% of median 56 1.5
2007 25 3rd lowest of 15 · 42% of median 33 0.5
2008 149 14th lowest of 15 · 248% of median 61 2.4
2009 89 11th lowest of 15 · 148% of median 46 2.0
2010 105 13th lowest of 15 · 175% of median 59 2.0
2011 53 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median 49 0.8
2012 54 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 76 0.9
2013 49 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 52 0.9
2014 13 1st lowest of 15 · 22% of median 27 0.4
2015 18 2nd lowest of 15 · 30% of median 33 0.5

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.