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SMITH AUSTIN & PIERSON
Structure dossier · WDID 1500566 · 1 · GRANEROS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:38 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 1868-05-31 — 53rd most senior of the 704 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: LITTLE GRANEROS FEEDER (1868-05-01). Immediately behind: ANDERSON DITCH PUMP (1869-01-15).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6726.0 | 1868-05-31 | 1893-06-26 | 1.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 44 |
| 8401.0 | 1872-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 1.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 70 |
| 10957.0 | 1879-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 0.05 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 124 |
| 12053.0 | 1882-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 0.05 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 144 |
| 13514.0 | 1886-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 0.15 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 172 |
| 14245.0 | 1888-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 0.15 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 179 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 0 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2008, came in at 0 AF — —% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 106 | 14th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 102 | 0.7 |
| 1978 | 32 | 11th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 77 | 0.3 |
| 1979 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 12 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 8 | 0.0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 11 | 0.0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 18 | 10th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 32 | 0.3 |
| 1995 | 106 | 14th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 42 | 1.3 |
| 1996 | 53 | 13th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 63 | 0.7 |
| 1997 | 37 | 12th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 95 | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
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