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SWAMP D
Structure dossier · WDID 2100599 · 1 · LA JARA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 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 1870-03-01 — 9th most senior of the 1041 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: LE MITA D 2 (1870-03-01). Immediately behind: HANSEN LA JARA OVFL APD (1870-03-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7365.0 | 1870-03-01 | 1888-07-11 | 2.49 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 5 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 130 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 526 AF — 405% of that, and 14th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 330 | 11th lowest of 15 · 254% of median | 107 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 272 | 9th lowest of 15 · 209% of median | 61 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 480 | 12th lowest of 15 · 369% of median | 94 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 130 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 94 | 3.3 |
| 2010 | 298 | 10th lowest of 15 · 229% of median | 275 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 2 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 304 | 0.1 |
| 2012 | 13 | 5th lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 73 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 14 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 6 | 4th lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 14 | 0.8 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 483 | 13th lowest of 15 · 372% of median | 90 | 8.1 |
| 2018 | 88 | 6th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 48 | 2.2 |
| 2019 | 600 | 15th lowest of 15 · 462% of median | 80 | 9.5 |
| 2020 | 118 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 29 | 4.8 |
| 2023 | 526 | 14th lowest of 15 · 405% of median | 66 | 9.5 |
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