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CLARK & BURKE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800588 · 1 · ELK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:37 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1888-05-03 — 64th most senior of the 3097 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: HERNAGE & KOLBE DITCH (1888-05-02). Immediately behind: GROUSE CREEK DITCH (1888-05-25).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14003.0 | 1888-05-03 | 1892-09-22 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | (49)50 |
| 25473.24975 | 1918-05-19 | 1920-07-02 | 0.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 250 |
| 33782.23162 | 1913-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 307 |
| 59535.40543 | 1961-01-01 | 2013-12-31 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | STK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 467 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 693 AF — 148% of that, and 12th 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 | 394 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 53 | 5.2 |
| 2012 | 1,327 | 15th lowest of 15 · 284% of median | 212 | 6.6 |
| 2013 | 860 | 14th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 153 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 622 | 11th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 130 | 3.1 |
| 2015 | 608 | 10th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 123 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 296 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 65 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 145 | 1st lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 105 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 383 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 147 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 357 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 129 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 467 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 153 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 593 | 9th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 146 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 399 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 119 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 438 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 143 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 757 | 13th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 127 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 693 | 12th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 127 | 5.4 |
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