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Structure dossier · WDID 5400536 · 1 · LITTLE SNAKE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1911-10-02 — 160th most senior of the 724 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: SKUNK CREEK RES (1911-08-01). Immediately behind: LAKE FORK DITCH (1915-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37433.22554 | 1911-10-02 | 1964-06-23 | 2.7 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 8 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 349 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 417 | 9th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 88 | 4.0 |
| 2006 | 198 | 6th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 67 | 2.0 |
| 2007 | 299 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 94 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 513 | 12th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 152 | 2.7 |
| 2009 | 519 | 13th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 107 | 3.0 |
| 2010 | 460 | 11th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 128 | 3.0 |
| 2011 | 555 | 14th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 93 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 180 | 5th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 71 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 349 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 161 | 2.5 |
| 2014 | 421 | 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 110 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 555 | 14th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 166 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 170 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 51 | 1.8 |
| 2019 | 170 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 59 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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