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VAIL SAVAGE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800917 · 1 · SMITH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:29 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.
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 1903-04-15 — 281st most senior of the 3097 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: WELCH & WATERS D (1901-07-22). Immediately behind: AGATE CREEK DITCH (1899-06-23).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19985.19462 | 1903-04-15 | 1904-09-20 | 4.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 167 |
| 33782.25719 | 1920-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 2.07 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 322H |
| 56247.38716 | 1956-01-01 | 2004-12-31 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | STK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 307 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 307 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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 | 395 | 9th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 105 | 5.0 |
| 2012 | 275 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 78 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 812 | 15th lowest of 15 · 264% of median | 131 | 6.1 |
| 2014 | 658 | 13th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 124 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 452 | 11th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 144 | 2.2 |
| 2016 | 737 | 14th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | 75 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 243 | 4th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 81 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 300 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 89 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 45 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 99 | 0.2 |
| 2020 | 454 | 12th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 67 | 5.0 |
| 2021 | 23 | 1st lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 23 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 305 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 96 | 3.2 |
| 2023 | 67 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 55 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 431 | 10th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 130 | 6.9 |
| 2025 | 307 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 47 | 6.9 |
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