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SNEVA DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6800738 · 1 · COW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:32 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.
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 1881-10-15 — 71st most senior of the 1293 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: WEHAWKEN CREEK SPRING & PIPELINE & NEW R (1881-10-01). Immediately behind: MCDONALD DITCH NO 145 (1881-11-01).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11611.0 | 1881-10-15 | 1897-05-15 | 21.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 54 |
| 14533.0 | 1889-10-15 | 1897-05-15 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 54056.46538 | 1977-06-01 | 1998-12-31 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | |
| 54421.40239 | 1960-03-03 | 1999-12-31 | 9.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | |
| 54421.52382 | 1993-06-01 | 1999-12-31 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,626 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 2,875 AF — 110% of that, and 11th 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 | 2,117 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 87 | 24.8 |
| 2012 | 2,655 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 139 | 19.1 |
| 2013 | 2,565 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 90 | 21.1 |
| 2014 | 2,354 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 104 | 22.2 |
| 2015 | 1,334 | 1st lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 71 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 2,419 | 4th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 135 | 16.3 |
| 2017 | 2,894 | 12th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 98 | 23.6 |
| 2018 | 3,213 | 14th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 139 | 23.0 |
| 2019 | 3,506 | 15th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 142 | 21.3 |
| 2020 | 3,137 | 13th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 142 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 2,626 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 166 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 2,607 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 157 | 20.5 |
| 2023 | 2,699 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 150 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 2,509 | 5th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 155 | 18.6 |
| 2025 | 2,875 | 11th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 174 | 16.8 |
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