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CLUTE SPRING DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 1700627 · 1 · ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:38 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 1948-07-31 — 717th most senior of the 1909 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: KUESTER IRRIG WELL NO 3 (1948-07-25). Immediately behind: ARNOLD WELL (1948-09-29).

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
36006.01948-07-311960-08-15 1.00.0 CIRRSTK 176

Recorded use (last 9 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 212 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1980, came in at 106 AF — 50% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 9 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)
1972 60 1st lowest of 9 · 28% of median 61 0.5
1973 301 8th lowest of 9 · 142% of median 304 0.5
1974 60 1st lowest of 9 · 28% of median 61 0.5
1975 332 9th lowest of 9 · 157% of median 365 0.5
1976 212 5th lowest of 9 · 100% of median 366 0.5
1977 271 6th lowest of 9 · 128% of median 365 0.5
1978 135 4th lowest of 9 · 64% of median 322 0.2
1979 287 7th lowest of 9 · 135% of median 365 0.5
1980 106 3rd lowest of 9 · 50% of median 305 0.2

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.