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SWANK FISH POND D NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 6200768 · 1 · LAKE FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:05 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 1959-01-15 — 604th most senior of the 1980 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: SLAUGHTER HOUSE DITCH (1958-08-10). Immediately behind: SWANK FISH POND D NO 2A (1959-01-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39826.0 | 1959-01-15 | 1960-03-30 | 15.0 | 0.0 | C | FIS | 457 |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
W2551, CA6981, 93CW0197.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W2551 | 1 | 1960-03-30 | S |
CA6981 | 2 | 1960-03-30 | S |
93CW0197 | 2 | 1960-03-30 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,106 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 637 AF — 30% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,698 | 14th lowest of 15 · 223% of median | 179 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 3,905 | 12th lowest of 15 · 185% of median | 168 | 15.0 |
| 2012 | 3,109 | 11th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 185 | 9.2 |
| 2013 | 5,016 | 15th lowest of 15 · 238% of median | 175 | 17.5 |
| 2014 | 4,425 | 13th lowest of 15 · 210% of median | 187 | 14.5 |
| 2015 | 1,516 | 6th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 157 | 9.3 |
| 2017 | 3,020 | 10th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 141 | 12.7 |
| 2018 | 1,930 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 181 | 7.7 |
| 2019 | 1,407 | 4th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 140 | 8.1 |
| 2020 | 1,390 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 151 | 6.2 |
| 2021 | 1,036 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 169 | 7.2 |
| 2022 | 1,411 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 145 | 7.2 |
| 2023 | 2,428 | 9th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 147 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 2,106 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 184 | 8.5 |
| 2025 | 637 | 1st lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 87 | 6.8 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-232 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.003).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 5877 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 70% of the irrigation seasons in 1986-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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