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CLIFF DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000539 · 1 · TROUBLESOME CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 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 1886-05-31 — 25th most senior of the 360 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: ANTELOPE DITCH (1886-04-08). Immediately behind: RITSCHARD DITCH (1886-05-31).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13300.0 | 1886-05-31 | 1906-08-11 | 7.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 23 |
| 20676.19665 | 1903-11-04 | 1911-08-03 | 24.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 96 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 661 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 661 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 691 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 56 | 7.3 |
| 2011 | 1,049 | 15th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 103 | 7.8 |
| 2012 | 922 | 13th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 66 | 7.4 |
| 2013 | 887 | 12th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 74 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 802 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 74 | 7.4 |
| 2015 | 435 | 5th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 49 | 7.2 |
| 2016 | 1,002 | 14th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 88 | 7.8 |
| 2017 | 792 | 10th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 94 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 323 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 78 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 387 | 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 54 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 166 | 1st lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 48 | 4.5 |
| 2021 | 214 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 77 | 2.7 |
| 2022 | 504 | 6th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 94 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 579 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 72 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 661 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 81 | 7.5 |
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