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1981 Basin Amount Appropriation Adjudi cat ion Ditch Rank (cfs) Date Date Farmers & Gardener s 90 13.72 03/15/1863 04/28/1883 365 10.28 04/01/1874 04/28/1883 24.00 Ditch 1981 Basin Rank Burl ington (Reithman) Burlington (Duggan) Burlington 71 114 902 The Farmers and Gardeners Ditch water rights are owned by the Denver Water Department, and the ditch is currently operated to supply un- treated water for a small amount of irrigation and several industrial uses, but the principal use of water diverted through the Farmers and Gardeners Ditch is the cooling water supply for the Public Service Com- pany's Cherokee Power Plant. The Cherokee Plant also obtains cooling water from Clear Creek at an approximate average rate of diversion of 1.9 cfs (1,366 AF/year), but the primary source of cooling water for the Cherokee Plant is the Farmers and Gardeners Ditch with an approximate average rate of diversion to the plant ranging from 6 to 9 cfs or more. The Public Service Company estimates the average rate of consumptive use of water at the Cherokee Plant to be about 64 percent. O'Brian Ditch 1,892 Denver-Hudson Canal 1,879 Barr Lake 902 1,943 Horse Creek Res. 2,050 2,608 2,608 9. Burlington Ditch, O'Brian Canal, Denver-Hudson Canal This ditch and reservoir system is the largest single diversion from the South Platte River between Chatfield Reservoir and Brighton. The water rights decreed to the various parts of the system are listed below. The common point of diversion for all of these water rights is the headgate of the Burlington Ditch on the right bank of the South Platte River about one mile north of the Interstate 70 bridge. Treated effluent from the Denver Metro Sewage Treatment Plant can be pumped into the Burling- ton Ditch to supplement the available flows in the South Platte River at the Burlington Ditch headgate whenever any of these rights are in prior- ity but unable to divert their full amounts, due to a shortage of water in the river. Prospect Reservoir 2,040 2,608 Amount 3.0 cfs 27.4 cfs 350.0 cfs 380.4 cfs 600.0 cfs 300.0 cfs 11,081 AF 21,930 AF 33,011 AF 12,000 AF 4,965 AF 2,550 AF 19,515 AF 5,97D AF 1,690 AF 7,660 AF Appropri at i on Date 06/02/1862 04/01/1864 11/20/1885 03/09/1908 11/28/1907 11/20/1885 01/13/190lJ 03/17/1911 07/20/1922 07/20/1922 11/21/1910 07/20/1922 V-7 Adjud i cat i on Date 08/14/1918 04/28/1883 07/08/1893 08/02/1918 08/02/1918 D7/08/1893 08/02/1918 08/02/1918 11/12/1924 11/12/1924 08/02/1918 11/12/1924 10. Gardeners Ditch The Gardeners Ditch diverts water at a point on the left bank of the South Platte River just south of the 58th Avenue bridge to irrigate lands between the ditch headgate and the mouth of Clear Creek. Although the water right in the Gardeners Ditch is quite senior and is situated upstream from the Denver Metro Sewage Treatment Plant point of return, the right would be in use only during the irrigation season and the amount of the right is too small to playa significant role in low-flow maintenance on the river.