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CLARK BUTLER WESTFALL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5400513 · 1 · LITTLE SNAKE RIVER · 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 (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 1888-11-20 — 13th most senior of the 724 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: MCCARGER DITCH (1888-10-12). Immediately behind: SINGLE DITCH (1889-04-04).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14204.0 | 1888-11-20 | 1894-09-22 | 3.17 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 12 |
| 37433.18779 | 1901-06-01 | 1964-06-23 | 5.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 4AAAAA |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 912 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 2,706 AF — 297% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 1,154 | 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 125 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 2,107 | 12th lowest of 15 · 231% of median | 141 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 934 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 91 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 912 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 119 | 6.0 |
| 2013 | 1,288 | 11th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 132 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 796 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 80 | 8.2 |
| 2015 | 5,456 | 15th lowest of 15 · 598% of median | 144 | 34.0 |
| 2016 | 4,283 | 14th lowest of 15 · 470% of median | 127 | 17.7 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 306 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 73 | 6.8 |
| 2021 | 203 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 35 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 617 | 5th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 47 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 365 | 4th lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 33 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 774 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 77 | 5.7 |
| 2025 | 2,706 | 13th lowest of 15 · 297% of median | 100 | 13.8 |
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