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CRAWFORD CLIPPER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000500 · 1 · SMITH FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:48 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 in line
Priority 1885-10-19 — 132nd most senior of the 4661 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: FOGG DITCH (1885-04-02). Immediately behind: ERIC JOHNSON DITCH (1885-12-02).
Decreed rights (15)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13076.0 | 1885-10-19 | 1889-06-17 | 12.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 3 |
| 19413.12519 | 1884-04-10 | 1903-02-27 | 12.243 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 4 |
| 19413.15066 | 1891-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 1.034 | 0.0 | C | IRR | R19 |
| 19413.15432 | 1892-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 2.531 | 0.0 | C | IRR | R20 |
| 19413.15797 | 1893-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 1.275 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 24 |
| 19413.16162 | 1894-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 3.187 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 27 |
| 19413.16527 | 1895-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 3.393 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 28 |
| 19413.16893 | 1896-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 4.088 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 32 |
| 19413.17258 | 1897-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 1.894 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 33 |
| 19413.17623 | 1898-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 1.987 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 35 |
| 19413.17988 | 1899-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 3.806 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 38 |
| 19413.18353 | 1900-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 3.638 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 39 |
| 25807.20179 | 1905-04-01 | 1930-02-10 | 41.77 | 0.0 | C | IRR | G41 |
| 29261.0 | 1930-02-11 | 1937-05-28 | 60.97 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H147 |
| 31924.12153 | 1883-04-10 | 1954-03-20 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | J9 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 15,560 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 15,560 AF — 100% of that, and 8th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 16,846 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 39 | 365 | 87.0 |
| 2011 | 21,030 | 15th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | — | 365 | 90.0 |
| 2012 | 13,503 | 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | — | 359 | 68.8 |
| 2013 | 13,928 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | — | 365 | 82.0 |
| 2014 | 18,279 | 14th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | — | 363 | 100.0 |
| 2015 | 15,203 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | — | 354 | 65.0 |
| 2016 | 17,436 | 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | — | 353 | 100.0 |
| 2017 | 17,541 | 12th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | — | 347 | 85.0 |
| 2018 | 10,274 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 66% of median | — | 365 | 54.5 |
| 2019 | 17,841 | 13th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | — | 365 | 100.0 |
| 2020 | 12,291 | 4th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | — | 366 | 70.0 |
| 2021 | 9,416 | 1st lowest of 15 · 60% of median | — | 365 | 66.0 |
| 2022 | 11,760 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 76% of median | — | 365 | 72.0 |
| 2023 | 17,110 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | — | 365 | 80.8 |
| 2024 | 15,560 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 300 | 73.7 |
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