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SKALLA SWAMP DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 6000813 · 1 · NATURITA CREEK · 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 1973-07-01 — 1293rd 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: LAST DOLLAR WELL NO2 (1973-02-01). Immediately behind: TABEGUACHE WELL NO 1 (1973-07-23).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
45107.01973-07-011973-12-31 1.00.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 82 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2001, came in at 143 AF — 174% of that, and 11th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1987 255 15th lowest of 15 · 311% of median 151 2.0
1988 119 9th lowest of 15 · 145% of median 96 1.0
1989 82 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 123 0.5
1990 12 3rd lowest of 15 · 15% of median 62 0.1
1991 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 3 0.0
1992 48 6th lowest of 15 · 58% of median 178 0.2
1993 68 7th lowest of 15 · 83% of median 159 0.2
1994 41 5th lowest of 15 · 50% of median 123 0.2
1995 238 14th lowest of 15 · 290% of median 158 1.5
1996 23 4th lowest of 15 · 28% of median 92 0.2
1997 140 10th lowest of 15 · 171% of median 192 1.0
1998 181 13th lowest of 15 · 221% of median 131 1.8
1999 153 12th lowest of 15 · 187% of median 126 1.4
2000 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 3 0.0
2001 143 11th lowest of 15 · 174% of median 154 0.8

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