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SWEDE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0500529 · 1 · SAINT VRAIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1861-03-08 — 19th most senior of the 1289 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: ST VRAIN PALMERTON DITCH (1861-03-08). Immediately behind: SMEAD DITCH (1861-03-08).
Decreed rights (24)
| 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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4085.0 | 1861-03-08 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 4462.0 | 1862-03-20 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 4883.0 | 1863-05-15 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 5295.0 | 1864-06-30 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 5600.0 | 1865-05-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 5631.0 | 1865-06-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 5996.0 | 1866-06-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 7012.0 | 1869-03-13 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 7092.0 | 1869-06-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 7640.0 | 1870-12-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 7791.0 | 1871-05-01 | 1882-06-02 | 15.193 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 7822.0 | 1871-06-01 | 1883-02-21 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 8461.0 | 1873-03-01 | 1882-06-02 | 9.024 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 8464.0 | 1873-03-04 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 8553.0 | 1873-06-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGPWRWLDALL | |
| 13454.0 | 1886-11-01 | 1907-03-13 | 27.0 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 19271.0 | 1902-10-06 | 1907-03-13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 19273.0 | 1902-10-08 | 1907-03-13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNALL | |
| 20890.19756 | 1904-02-03 | 1926-06-01 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 21439.0 | 1908-09-12 | 1926-06-01 | 25.0 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 22546.0 | 1911-09-24 | 1926-06-01 | 28.0 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 29219.0 | 1929-12-31 | 1951-07-23 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNALL | |
| 49114.0 | 1984-06-20 | 1984-12-31 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 49673.49489 | 1985-06-30 | 1986-12-31 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | STO |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,664 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 2,383 AF — 90% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| Year | Diverted (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 record | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,336 | 13th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 91 | 110 | 28.5 |
| 2011 | 4,468 | 15th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | — | 150 | 26.1 |
| 2012 | 1,661 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 62% of median | — | 117 | 15.9 |
| 2013 | 2,664 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 86 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 2,996 | 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | — | 132 | 24.7 |
| 2015 | 893 | 1st lowest of 15 · 34% of median | — | 55 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 2,675 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 88 | 31.6 |
| 2017 | 3,489 | 14th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | — | 124 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 2,522 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | — | 69 | 29.4 |
| 2019 | 2,652 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 83 | 31.5 |
| 2020 | 1,106 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 42% of median | — | 59 | 23.8 |
| 2021 | 2,412 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | — | 86 | 27.4 |
| 2022 | 3,035 | 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | — | 96 | 25.1 |
| 2023 | 2,856 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | — | 104 | 30.3 |
| 2024 | 2,383 | 4th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | — | 82 | 29.0 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 100.0% of a median season / 84.1% dry-year.
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