CANAL CONDITIONS

From: DWR - DNR Ark River Ops

Call Change:  May 15, 2026 at 08:12 a.m.

• 🌊Bessemer is diverting native water and account (ADMIN # 11778 /  3-31-1882) 
• 🌊Colorado Canal is out of priority, is diverting CSU curtailment waters and will end this evening.
• 🌊Rocky Ford Highline has native water (including LA Town Ditch) and account waters (ADMIN # 12485 / 3-7-1884)
• 🌊Oxford has native water and account. (ADMIN # 6473 / 9-21-1867) 
• 🚱Otero is out of priority.   
• 🌊Catlin will be diverting with this call change once water gets to them (ADMIN # 12756 / 12-3-1884).
• 🌊Holbrook is out of priority but are diverting account water released out of Meredith and exchanging out of Holbrook Res.
• 🌊Rocky Ford Ditch diverting native flows. (ADMIN # 8901 / 5-15-1874)
• 🌊Fort Lyon is diverting native flows and account. (ADMIN # 12524 / 4-15-1884) 
• 🌊Las Animas Consolidated has native flows and account. (ADMIN # 12756 / 12-3-1884)  
• John Martin Reservoir is passing native inflows.
• Keesee water right (Calls through JMR as of 4/26/2026 when the Paper evacuation of the Keesee Summer stored account was completed.  As such, the Keesee rights are eligible to call through JMR throughout the month of May)
  1. Combined 02CW181 / 05CW52 - Limit of 180 ac-ft for the month.
     • 02CW181 - Limit monthly river headgate diversions to 90 ac-ft out of Volumetric limit of 445 ac-ft for the month. (To the Downstream Consumable Offset Account) - LAWMA has voluntarily chosen this limit as a consequence of the 20 yr cumulative limit and leaving water available in said limit for 2036.
     • 05CW52 - Limit monthly river headgate diversions to 90 ac-ft out of Volumetric limit of 445 ac-ft for month. (To the Arkansas River) - LAWMA has voluntarily chosen this limit as a consequence of the 20 yr cumulative limit and leaving water available in said limit for 2036.
• 🐪Fort Bent is not diverting and is not calling for water. 
• 🚱Amity is out of account water, can call thru JMR.
• 🌊Lamar has native and account water  (ADMIN # 13457 / 11-4-1886 )  Cannot call thru JMR.
• 🚱Hyde is out of account water, can call thru JMR.
• 🌊Buffalo Ditch is diverting native and account water.  (ADMIN # 12813 / 1-29-1885).  Cannot call thru JMR.
• 🌊XY is in priority and by decree is calling for water below Buffalo Ditch and is limited to available flows at Granada River gage. (ADMIN # 14448 / 7-22-1889) 
• -  02CW181 - 67 cfs daily of river headgate diversions up to a monthly maximum of 900 ac-ft for the month  
• -  15CW3067 - 2 cfs daily of river headgate diversions up to a monthly maximum of 30 ac-ft 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