CANAL CONDITIONS

From: DWR - DNR Ark River Ops5

Call Change:  August 29, 2025, at 2:49 p.m.
 

• With  another rain event coming from Fountain Creek we have seen a positive  trend to the river and much more stable data for better administration.   Thank you for your patience.  Keep in mind we have cut Pueblo Reservoir  350 cfs yesterday and 300 cfs this morning.  Things are dropping off  from above.
• 🌊 Bessemer is diverting native and account.  (ADMIN# 11778 / 3-31-1882).  
• 🚱 Colorado Canal is out of priority. 
• 🌊 Rocky Ford Highline is diverting native and account  (ADMIN # 13219 / 3-11-1886). 
• 🌊 Oxford is diverting native and account (ADMIN # 13571 / 2-26-1887).  This call change may be 
• 🚱 Otero is out of priority.
• 🌊 Catlin is diverting native  (ADMIN # 12756 / 12-3-1884). 
• 🌊 Holbrook is out of priority.
• 🌊 Rocky Ford Ditch is diverting native (ADMIN # 8901 / 5-15-1874).  
• 🌊 Fort Lyon is diverting native and account water (ADMIN # 12524 / 4-15-1884).  Ft Lyons account water will end @ 1730 today.
• 🌊 Las Animas Consolidated is diverting native and account. (ADMIN # 12756 / 12-3-1884).
• 🚱  Fort Bent is in priority (ADMIN # 13240 / 4-1-1886).
• 🚱 Amity is in priority with this call change  (ADMIN # 13566 / 2-21-1887).  Amity will be advised when they can divert their 1887 right today.
• 🌊 Lamar is diverting native and account water (ADMIN# 13457 / 11-4-1886).  The account water will be done and native will be diverted as the pending release from JMR gets to them.  Still sweeping.
• 🌊 Hyde Ditch is diverting native (ADMIN# 13644 / 5-10-1887).
• 🐫 Buffalo Ditch is diverting native water (ADMIN# 12813 / 1-29-1885).  
• 🐫 XY is satisfied for the month.
• 🐪 CO/KS Compact  (ADMIN # 36310 / 5-31-1949).

🐪 CANNOT CALL THRU JMR ----> has summer stored account water. 

For more information on the River Call go to the Division of Water Resources CDSS link listed below.
https://dwr.state.co.us/Tools/AdministrativeCalls/Active?submitButton=Submit&SelectedWaterDivisionId=2

Thank you!
Brandy Cole Division 2 -- East Regional Lead Water Commissioner Districts 17, 66 & 67
 

From: DWR - DNR Ark River Ops

•  May 19, 2023.  At 2:02 p.m.    
  
•  Good Afternoon,I just want to follow up to Lonnie's email from earlier today.  At the top it stated:

• "Administration of water rights are determined by priority of ADMINISTRATION NUMBER (adjudication date)."

• I  want to make sure we are being clear on this, priority is not based on  adjudication date. The priority is calculated using the appropriation  date and adjudication date and considers if the right is decreed as  original or supplemental.  This calculation takes into account the  postponement doctrine.  That calculated ranking number is called the  "Administration number" or "admin number". As the Division is  implementing the ArkDss call analysis tools, this question has come up  in conversation all across the basin and we are providing the Admin  number along with the call information to assist in helping water users  understand the ArkDss tools reporting functions. A lower admin number is  indicative of a more senior right.  I have prepared a powerpoint  presentation on this subject and have been presenting it at different  venues around the basin.  I plan to include it as a link in the "DE  Summary" section of the weekend update which will be coming out later  today.

• If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact me, I am more than happy to describe this term further.
   

Rachel A. Zancanella, P.E.

Division Engineer, Div. 2

State of Colorado, Division of Water Resources

310 E. Abriendo Ave., Pueblo, CO  81004

Phone: 719-565-8686

email: rachel.zancanella@state.co.us