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CLIFF DITCH - HEADGATE NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 5000731 · 1 · WASTE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:05 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 1903-11-04 — 89th 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: ZWAHLEN NO 2 DITCH (1902-07-16). Immediately behind: CLIFF DITCH - HEADGATE NO 3 (1903-11-04).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20676.19665 | 1903-11-04 | 1911-08-03 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 781 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,316 AF — 168% of that, and 14th 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 | 657 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 157 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 1,575 | 15th lowest of 15 · 202% of median | 175 | 8.3 |
| 2012 | 702 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 156 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 761 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 94 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 546 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 56 | 6.1 |
| 2015 | 642 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 98 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 619 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 92 | 5.6 |
| 2017 | 1,247 | 13th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 101 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 959 | 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 125 | 12.0 |
| 2019 | 1,000 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 126 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 414 | 1st lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 156 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 781 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 156 | 6.0 |
| 2022 | 941 | 9th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 127 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 1,009 | 12th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 122 | 8.0 |
| 2024 | 1,316 | 14th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 157 | 6.0 |
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