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SMITH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7000593 · 1 · DRY FORK ROAN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1912-08-21 — 71st most senior of the 519 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: LONG GULCH DITCH NO 2 (1899-11-11). Immediately behind: H A NEWTON DITCH (1907-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24094.22878 | 1912-08-21 | 1916-03-18 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 155A |
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 16 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2005, came in at 256 AF — 1600% of that, and 10th lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 12 | 5th lowest of 10 · 75% of median | 4 | 2.0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1988 | 20 | 6th lowest of 10 · 125% of median | 20 | 0.5 |
| 1989 | 69 | 9th lowest of 10 · 431% of median | 102 | 0.5 |
| 1990 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 24 | 7th lowest of 10 · 150% of median | 52 | 0.3 |
| 1993 | 37 | 8th lowest of 10 · 231% of median | 73 | 0.6 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 4th lowest of 10 · 12% of median | 48 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 256 | 10th lowest of 10 · 1600% of median | 130 | 1.0 |
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