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CROWLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800621 · 1 · SMITH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:58 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 1903-06-15 — 323rd most senior of the 4788 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: PATTERSON AND CUMMINS D (1893-11-20). Immediately behind: IRONDALE DITCH (1903-07-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21166.19523 | 1903-06-15 | 1908-05-18 | 0.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 219C |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 91 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1985, came in at 83 AF — 91% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 88 | 4th lowest of 11 · 97% of median | 149 | 0.3 |
| 1976 | 98 | 9th lowest of 11 · 108% of median | 165 | 0.3 |
| 1977 | 98 | 9th lowest of 11 · 108% of median | 165 | 0.3 |
| 1978 | 91 | 5th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 153 | 0.3 |
| 1979 | 91 | 5th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 153 | 0.3 |
| 1980 | 91 | 5th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 153 | 0.3 |
| 1981 | 72 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 79% of median | 122 | 0.3 |
| 1982 | 71 | 1st lowest of 11 · 78% of median | 121 | 0.3 |
| 1983 | 91 | 5th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 153 | 0.3 |
| 1984 | 101 | 11th lowest of 11 · 111% of median | 170 | 0.3 |
| 1985 | 83 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 91% of median | 140 | 0.3 |
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