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CLAYTON OLD CHANNEL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2500545 · 1 · KERBER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
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 1872-03-25 — 58th most senior of the 847 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: CLAYTON D E (1872-03-25). Immediately behind: CODY D (1872-03-25).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8120.0 | 1872-03-25 | 1890-03-28 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 19 |
| 8628.0 | 1873-08-15 | 1890-03-28 | 2.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 38 |
| 14051.0 | 1888-06-20 | 1890-03-28 | 0.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 127 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 237 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 44 AF — 19% of that, and 2nd 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 | 381 | 12th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 76 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 173 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 99 | 1.7 |
| 2013 | 296 | 9th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 51 | 4.4 |
| 2014 | 643 | 15th lowest of 15 · 271% of median | 175 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 306 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 159 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 237 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 90 | 2.7 |
| 2017 | 550 | 14th lowest of 15 · 232% of median | 109 | 2.7 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 14 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 169 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 106 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 427 | 13th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 203 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 325 | 11th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 183 | 2.4 |
| 2022 | 48 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 73 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 196 | 7th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 39 | 5.5 |
| 2024 | 167 | 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 51 | 3.0 |
| 2025 | 44 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 85 | 2.0 |
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