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CLINETOP DITCH NO 1

Structure dossier · WDID 3900530 · 1 · MAIN ELK CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 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 1885-05-10 — 176th most senior of the 1758 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: VULCAN DITCH (1907-04-01). Immediately behind: MONCKTON PUMP & PL (1885-05-10).

Decreed rights (2)

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
21441.129141885-05-101908-12-03 0.90.0 CIRRDOM 43A
32959.259951921-03-041943-01-11 1.10.0 CIRR 220C

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 227 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2008, came in at 548 AF — 241% of that, and 15th 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)
1989 323 13th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 160 1.8
1990 258 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 115 1.9
1991 155 4th lowest of 15 · 68% of median 76 1.4
1992 89 2nd lowest of 15 · 39% of median 63 0.9
1993 217 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 129 1.5
1994 321 12th lowest of 15 · 141% of median 111 2.1
1995 251 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 115 1.5
1996 222 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 115 1.8
1997 228 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 110 1.8
1998 207 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 99 1.7
1999 40 1st lowest of 15 · 18% of median 59 0.3
2005 380 14th lowest of 15 · 167% of median 67 2.9
2006 227 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 81 2.1
2007 145 3rd lowest of 15 · 64% of median 74 1.0
2008 548 15th lowest of 15 · 241% of median 142 2.8

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