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OLD E P SMITH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1300935 · 1 · COTTONWOOD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:02 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 1871-08-01 — 50th most senior of the 1017 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: KITZMAN & TOD DITCH NO 3 (1871-07-31). Immediately behind: W A BELL DITCH NO 1 (1871-08-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7883.0 | 1871-08-01 | 1896-03-12 | 0.98 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 29A |
| 10774.0 | 1879-07-01 | 1896-03-12 | 0.68 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 229B |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 107 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 146 AF — 136% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 41 | 1st lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 26 | 0.9 |
| 2011 | 64 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 64 | 0.6 |
| 2012 | 54 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 63 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 58 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 61 | 0.6 |
| 2014 | 165 | 12th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 89 | 1.6 |
| 2015 | 92 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 51 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 178 | 13th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 108 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 140 | 10th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 92 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 226 | 15th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 176 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 107 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 54 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 75 | 6th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 67 | 0.6 |
| 2021 | 69 | 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 52 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 136 | 9th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 94 | 0.9 |
| 2023 | 199 | 14th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 92 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 146 | 11th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 80 | 1.0 |
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