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SAWPIT PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 6000751 · 7 · SAN MIGUEL RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 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
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 1908-07-01 — 854th most senior of the 2893 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: OWL CREEK DITCH (1920-05-15). Immediately behind: SLY DITCH EXTENSION (1904-12-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30604.28053 | 1908-07-01 | 1939-11-01 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNDOM | 265 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 60 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2001, came in at 54 AF — 90% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 72 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 1988 | 73 | 14th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 366 | 0.1 |
| 1989 | 72 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 1990 | 88 | 15th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 365 | 0.2 |
| 1991 | 60 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 306 | 0.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 71 | 0.1 |
| 1993 | 72 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | 60 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 304 | 0.1 |
| 1995 | 8 | 1st lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 67 | 0.1 |
| 1996 | 48 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 366 | 0.1 |
| 1997 | 34 | 4th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 304 | 0.1 |
| 1998 | 26 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 118 | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 69 | 10th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 2000 | 63 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 366 | 0.1 |
| 2001 | 54 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 304 | 0.1 |
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