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SMITH DITCH NO 2

Structure dossier · WDID 3800999 · 1 · TONER CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:50 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 — 589th 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: SMITH DITCH NO 1 (1910-05-01). Immediately behind: HAWK DITCH (SPRINGS) (1912-01-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
30941.220351910-05-011936-08-25 1.390.0 CIRR 387

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 276 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 77 AF — 28% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1984 155 6th lowest of 15 · 56% of median 79 1.0
1985 276 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 140 1.0
1986 339 9th lowest of 15 · 123% of median 123 1.4
1988 361 10th lowest of 15 · 131% of median 153 1.5
1991 204 7th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 138 0.8
1992 1,307 15th lowest of 15 · 474% of median 209 5.0
1993 1,051 14th lowest of 15 · 381% of median 198 4.5
1996 131 4th lowest of 15 · 48% of median 153 0.5
1997 131 4th lowest of 15 · 48% of median 153 0.5
1998 698 11th lowest of 15 · 253% of median 153 2.7
1999 780 12th lowest of 15 · 283% of median 176 2.8
2000 972 13th lowest of 15 · 352% of median 184 3.6
2001 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0
2007 1 2nd lowest of 15 · 0% of median 2 0.5
2015 77 3rd lowest of 15 · 28% of median 79 0.5

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