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SNEPENGER DITCH NO 3
Structure dossier · WDID 4001047 · 1 · NORTH FORK GUNNISON RIVE · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:40 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 1930-04-01 — 1949th 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: SNEPENGER DITCH NO 1 (1930-04-01). Immediately behind: WEST HUBBARD DITCH (1931-07-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38064.2931 | 1930-04-01 | 1964-01-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | K58 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 198 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2016, came in at 219 AF — 111% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 169 | 4th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 119 | 0.8 |
| 2001 | 249 | 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 148 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 115 | 1st lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 78 | 0.8 |
| 2003 | 180 | 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 134 | 0.8 |
| 2004 | 188 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 132 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 188 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 120 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 264 | 14th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 153 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 198 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 106 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 220 | 11th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 112 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 218 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 134 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 296 | 15th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 152 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 263 | 13th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 108 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 159 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 162 | 0.5 |
| 2015 | 165 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 116 | 0.8 |
| 2016 | 219 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 136 | 1.0 |
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