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Structure dossier · WDID 3800844 · 1 · SNOWMASS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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 1907-09-03 — 587th 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: ALFRED SLOSS NO 2 DITCH (1907-07-01). Immediately behind: SMITH DITCH NO 1 (1910-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30941.21064 | 1907-09-03 | 1936-08-25 | 4.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 384 |
| 61726.61552 | 2018-07-10 | 2018-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.1 | C | IRRFIR | 384 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 820 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 949 AF — 116% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 552 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 118 | 2.8 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 157 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 123 | 1.6 |
| 2013 | 774 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 122 | 3.5 |
| 2014 | 1,198 | 12th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 134 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 820 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 160 | 2.6 |
| 2016 | 604 | 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 143 | 2.6 |
| 2017 | 1,039 | 11th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 165 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 699 | 5th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 147 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 724 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 165 | 3.5 |
| 2020 | 920 | 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 153 | 3.8 |
| 2021 | 1,293 | 15th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 162 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 1,248 | 13th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 156 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 1,273 | 14th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 136 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 949 | 10th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 127 | 4.7 |
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