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SWARTZ DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500789 · 1 · WEST DIVIDE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 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 1928-06-01 — 337th most senior of the 1378 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: MCPHERSON SPRING NO 2 (1927-06-02). Immediately behind: ARTHUR PIPELINE (1928-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37681.28641 | 1928-06-01 | 1965-07-09 | 0.89 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 236 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 64 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 108 AF — 169% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 60 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 35 | 0.9 |
| 1994 | 32 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 19 | 0.9 |
| 1995 | 49 | 4th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 29 | 0.9 |
| 1996 | 26 | 1st lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 16 | 0.9 |
| 1997 | 108 | 12th lowest of 15 · 169% of median | 62 | 0.9 |
| 1998 | 121 | 14th lowest of 15 · 189% of median | 63 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 105 | 11th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 54 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 170 | 15th lowest of 15 · 266% of median | 58 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 58 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 30 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 71 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 62 | 0.8 |
| 2006 | 55 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 42 | 0.8 |
| 2007 | 34 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 42 | 0.5 |
| 2008 | 96 | 10th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 56 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 64 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 57 | 0.9 |
| 2010 | 108 | 12th lowest of 15 · 169% of median | 42 | 2.0 |
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