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SWAN DITCH 1

Structure dossier · WDID 8000843 · DITCH · WET GULCH CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:29 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.

Current administration

● Fully called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).

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 1888-01-01 — 1545th most senior of the 21881 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: 2300945 (1885-12-31). Immediately behind: 8003669 (1888-01-01).

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
26469.13881888-01-011953-03-24 0.50.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 49 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 34 AF — 69% of that, and 5th 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)
1995 83 13th lowest of 15 · 169% of median 85 0.5
1997 70 11th lowest of 15 · 143% of median 73 0.5
1998 33 4th lowest of 15 · 67% of median 34 0.5
1999 58 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 61 0.5
2001 10 1st lowest of 15 · 20% of median 11 0.5
2009 49 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 50 0.5
2010 22 3rd lowest of 15 · 45% of median 35 0.5
2013 40 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 41 0.5
2014 76 12th lowest of 15 · 155% of median 80 0.5
2015 97 14th lowest of 15 · 198% of median 99 0.5
2016 55 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 56 0.5
2017 166 15th lowest of 15 · 339% of median 167 0.5
2021 20 2nd lowest of 15 · 41% of median 23 0.5
2023 40 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 41 0.5
2024 34 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median 37 0.5

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