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SMITH DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 3800998 · 1 · TONER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:51 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 1910-05-01 — 588th 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: LUTZ DITCH (1907-09-03). Immediately behind: SMITH DITCH NO 2 (1910-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30941.22035 | 1910-05-01 | 1936-08-25 | 1.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 386 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 121 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2009, came in at 117 AF — 97% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 101 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 52 | 1.0 |
| 1979 | 79 | 4th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 88 | 0.6 |
| 1980 | 674 | 15th lowest of 15 · 557% of median | 170 | 2.0 |
| 1981 | 167 | 9th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 44 | 2.0 |
| 1982 | 238 | 11th lowest of 15 · 197% of median | 61 | 2.0 |
| 1983 | 424 | 12th lowest of 15 · 350% of median | 108 | 2.0 |
| 1984 | 432 | 13th lowest of 15 · 357% of median | 110 | 2.0 |
| 1985 | 551 | 14th lowest of 15 · 455% of median | 140 | 2.0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 24 | 0.1 |
| 1992 | 58 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 30 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 87 | 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 45 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 180 | 10th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 114 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 121 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 95 | 1.4 |
| 2009 | 117 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 92 | 1.4 |
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