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SMITH DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 6300561 · 1 · DOLORES RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:31 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 in line
Priority 1885-04-15 — 178th most senior of the 533 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: SMITH DITCH NO 1 (1885-04-15). Immediately behind: HARMS AND HAZEL DITCH (1890-05-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30079.12889 | 1885-04-15 | 1939-02-11 | 1.41 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 19 |
| 32547.0 | 1939-02-10 | 1939-02-11 | 2.82 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 91 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 429 AF — 471% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 101 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 85 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 20 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 92 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 76 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 43 | 5th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 52 | 1.2 |
| 2015 | 91 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 109 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 263 | 13th lowest of 15 · 289% of median | 102 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 186 | 12th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 76 | 2.5 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 387 | 14th lowest of 15 · 425% of median | 92 | 4.5 |
| 2020 | 109 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 61 | 2.5 |
| 2021 | 24 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 33 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 57 | 6th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 42 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 24 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 11 | 1.5 |
| 2024 | 63 | 7th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 56 | 1.5 |
| 2025 | 429 | 15th lowest of 15 · 471% of median | 188 | 2.6 |
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