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SMITH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3600801 · 1 · DEEP CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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 1891-07-01 — 115th most senior of the 1247 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: MARSHALL NO 3 DITCH (1891-06-01). Immediately behind: GOULD DITCH (1891-07-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15157.0 | 1891-07-01 | 1910-03-02 | 15.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 81 |
| 18871.0 | 1901-09-01 | 1910-03-02 | 15.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 131 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,172 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,476 AF — 68% 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 | 3,224 | 14th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 101 | 34.1 |
| 2009 | 2,641 | 11th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 50 | 32.4 |
| 2010 | 1,562 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 49 | 30.3 |
| 2011 | 2,928 | 13th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 58 | 38.3 |
| 2012 | 1,905 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 81 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 2,230 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 65 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 3,807 | 15th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 63 | 38.7 |
| 2016 | 2,172 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 40 | 36.5 |
| 2017 | 2,312 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 66 | 36.5 |
| 2018 | 1,681 | 4th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 72 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 2,687 | 12th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 56 | 36.5 |
| 2021 | 1,137 | 1st lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 69 | 17.0 |
| 2022 | 1,781 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 73 | 25.0 |
| 2023 | 1,845 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 65 | 40.0 |
| 2024 | 1,476 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 57 | 25.0 |
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