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SNAKING ROAD SPRING
Structure dossier · WDID 8000889 · SPRING · LOY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:17 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 1920-05-30 — 3393rd 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: 8001535 (1912-12-31). Immediately behind: 8000893 (1922-06-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37703.25717 | 1920-05-30 | 1971-11-15 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 35 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 25 AF — 71% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 35 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 36 | 0.5 |
| 1999 | 81 | 12th lowest of 15 · 231% of median | 84 | 0.5 |
| 2007 | 77 | 11th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 80 | 0.5 |
| 2010 | 74 | 10th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 90 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 105 | 13th lowest of 15 · 300% of median | 54 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 27 | 7th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 129 | 0.1 |
| 2015 | 153 | 15th lowest of 15 · 437% of median | 170 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 141 | 14th lowest of 15 · 403% of median | 156 | 0.8 |
| 2017 | 20 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 43 | 0.3 |
| 2018 | 5 | 1st lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 12 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 21 | 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 59 | 0.3 |
| 2021 | 20 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 92 | 0.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 9 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 47 | 9th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 79 | 0.6 |
| 2024 | 25 | 6th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 201 | 0.1 |
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