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SNOWMASS CREEK PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 3801442 · 7 · SNOWMASS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:31 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 1887-05-15 — 221st 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: SNOWMASS DITCH (1887-05-15). Immediately behind: GOOD FRIEND DITCH (1887-05-25).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13649.0 | 1887-05-15 | 1889-05-11 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDFIRDOMOTH | 176 |
| 19719.13666 | 1887-06-01 | 1903-12-29 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDFIRDOMOTH | 123AA |
| 30941.20701 | 1906-09-05 | 1936-08-25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 375 |
| 36800.0 | 1950-10-03 | 1952-10-24 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDREC | 620 |
| 42305.0 | 1965-10-29 | 1971-11-05 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDRECDOMOTH | 817 |
| 52013.0 | 1992-05-28 | 1992-12-31 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | SNO |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 171 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 348 AF — 204% of that, and 12th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 171 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 2.5 |
| 2011 | 204 | 9th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 365 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 123 | 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 365 | 4.1 |
| 2013 | 47 | 1st lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 365 | 2.4 |
| 2014 | 93 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 365 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 105 | 4th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 154 | 2.2 |
| 2016 | 214 | 10th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 122 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 687 | 15th lowest of 15 · 402% of median | 365 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 221 | 11th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 365 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 80 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 122 | 2.1 |
| 2020 | 143 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 302 | 5.0 |
| 2021 | 141 | 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 365 | 3.9 |
| 2022 | 514 | 14th lowest of 15 · 301% of median | 365 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 444 | 13th lowest of 15 · 260% of median | 365 | 5.5 |
| 2024 | 348 | 12th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 305 | 2.9 |
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