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YOUNG DITCH ENLARGEMENT
Structure dossier · WDID 4000624 · 1 · SMITH FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:53 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 in line
Priority 1900-05-01 — 1737th most senior of the 4661 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: KELLEY NO 1 DITCH (1900-04-01). Immediately behind: BALCH NO 1 DITCH (1900-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31924.18383 | 1900-05-01 | 1954-03-20 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | J72 |
| 35552.0 | 1947-05-04 | 1954-03-20 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | J277 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 46 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 9 AF — 20% of that, and 2nd 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 | 126 | 15th lowest of 15 · 274% of median | 208 | 1.1 |
| 2011 | 46 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 74 | 0.4 |
| 2012 | 54 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 195 | 0.4 |
| 2013 | 67 | 14th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 206 | 0.6 |
| 2014 | 52 | 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 198 | 0.3 |
| 2015 | 62 | 12th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 212 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 44 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 193 | 0.2 |
| 2017 | 44 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 187 | 0.2 |
| 2018 | 30 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 212 | 0.1 |
| 2019 | 24 | 4th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 170 | 0.2 |
| 2020 | 3 | 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 31 | 0.1 |
| 2021 | 64 | 13th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 158 | 0.2 |
| 2022 | 16 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 131 | 0.1 |
| 2023 | 58 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 174 | 0.2 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 93 | 0.1 |
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