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SMITH DITCH (LAKE FORK)
Structure dossier · WDID 1100508 · 1 · LAKE FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:30 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1879-05-01 — 138th most senior of the 1489 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: EDWARDS DITCH NO 1 (1879-03-31). Immediately behind: UPPER RIVER DITCH (1879-05-15).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10713.0 | 1879-05-01 | 1906-01-16 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 69B |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 983 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 761 AF — 77% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
| 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 | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 1,121 | 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 169 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 779 | 4th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 116 | 4.1 |
| 2009 | 1,019 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 144 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 1,061 | 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 148 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 1,012 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 142 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 735 | 1st lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 122 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 1,165 | 13th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 150 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 1,307 | 14th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 177 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 790 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 165 | 4.0 |
| 2016 | 983 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 142 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 1,307 | 14th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 178 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 773 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 148 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 785 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 166 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 933 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 148 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 761 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 136 | 4.0 |
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