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POLFER DITCH & PL
Structure dossier · WDID 4301151 · 7 · CROOKS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:15 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1961-08-18 — 1251st most senior of the 3293 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: FRANK MORRISON DITCH (1961-07-15). Immediately behind: HERRELL DITCH NO 2 (1961-08-23).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40772.0 | 1961-08-18 | 1966-11-21 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 698 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 12 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 12 | 5th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 181 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 11 | 4th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 173 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 12 | 5th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 177 | 0.0 |
| 1997 | 12 | 5th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 180 | 0.0 |
| 1998 | 14 | 9th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 207 | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 12 | 5th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 181 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 43 | 15th lowest of 15 · 358% of median | 172 | 0.2 |
| 2001 | 29 | 14th lowest of 15 · 242% of median | 184 | 0.2 |
| 2002 | 17 | 11th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 176 | 0.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | 12th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 200 | 0.1 |
| 2004 | 20 | 12th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 200 | 0.1 |
| 2005 | 9 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 153 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 4 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 152 | 0.0 |
| 2009 | 15 | 10th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 78 | 0.1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
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