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SMITH DITCH NO 1(BROWN)
Structure dossier · WDID 1100629 · 1 · BROWNS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:33 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 1865-09-30 — 26th 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: GILLILAND DITCH NO 1 (1865-09-30). Immediately behind: EVANS DITCH (1865-09-30).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5752.0 | 1865-09-30 | 1890-06-19 | 0.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 5 |
| 5964.0 | 1866-04-30 | 1890-06-19 | 0.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 11 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 399 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 89 AF — 22% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 237 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 97 | 1.3 |
| 2009 | 433 | 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 169 | 1.3 |
| 2010 | 469 | 14th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 183 | 1.3 |
| 2011 | 416 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 168 | 1.3 |
| 2012 | 376 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 149 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 401 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 207 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 478 | 15th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 177 | 3.3 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 328 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 141 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 460 | 13th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 158 | 8.0 |
| 2018 | 441 | 12th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 230 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 323 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 146 | 1.3 |
| 2020 | 352 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 166 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 399 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 161 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 89 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 91 | 1.6 |
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