Hydrohistorian
← My Water · Print / save as PDF
JOHNNIE SMITH D NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 2700523 · 1 · CARNERO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:08 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 1888-04-30 — 32nd most senior of the 1304 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: 81CW069 WELL NO 03 (1887-11-09). Immediately behind: W2249 WELL NO 09 (1888-12-31).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14000.0 | 1888-04-30 | 1911-10-23 | 16.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 61 |
| 18627.0 | 1900-12-31 | 1911-10-23 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 66 |
| 55290.0 | 2001-05-18 | 2001-12-31 | 20.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
09CW0003, 01CW0038, 10/23/1911.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
09CW0003 | 1 | 2001-12-31 | S |
01CW0038 | 1 | 2001-12-31 | S |
10/23/1911 | 2 | 1911-10-23 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 34 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 20 AF — 59% of that, and 7th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 20 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 18 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 108 | 11th lowest of 15 · 318% of median | 22 | 14.2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 11 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 937 | 13th lowest of 15 · 2756% of median | 143 | 15.2 |
| 2016 | 1,171 | 14th lowest of 15 · 3444% of median | 195 | 20.5 |
| 2017 | 1,431 | 15th lowest of 15 · 4209% of median | 157 | 24.0 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5th lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 20 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 919 | 12th lowest of 15 · 2703% of median | 118 | 22.7 |
| 2020 | 52 | 9th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 116 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 16 | 6th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 27 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 80 | 10th lowest of 15 · 235% of median | 16 | 24.2 |
| 2023 | 34 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 39 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 20 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 20 | 7th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 38 | 2.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2186 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 15% of the irrigation seasons in 1957-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.