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CLUFF WASTE WATER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6001166 · 1 · MAVERICK DRAW · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:13 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 1938-06-01 — 1490th most senior of the 2893 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: TELCO WELL NO. 6/8 A11 (1980-10-01). Immediately behind: HUBBS PUMPING PLANT & D (1976-07-14).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47847.32293 | 1938-06-01 | 1981-12-31 | 0.15 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 49308.39567 | 1958-05-01 | 1985-12-31 | 0.35 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
85CW0240, 80CW0431.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
85CW0240 | 1 | 1985-12-31 | S |
80CW0431 | 1 | 1981-12-31 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 7 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2005, came in at 49 AF — 700% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | 6th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 27 | 0.1 |
| 1989 | 4 | 4th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 26 | 0.1 |
| 1990 | 2 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 10 | 0.2 |
| 1991 | 1 | 1st lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 10 | 0.2 |
| 1992 | 8 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 34 | 0.2 |
| 1993 | 9 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 38 | 0.2 |
| 1994 | 13 | 13th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 41 | 0.3 |
| 1995 | 4 | 4th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 14 | 0.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 25 | 0.2 |
| 1997 | 2 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 7 | 0.2 |
| 1998 | 7 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 29 | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 9 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 23 | 0.2 |
| 2000 | 12 | 12th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 45 | 0.2 |
| 2001 | 26 | 14th lowest of 15 · 371% of median | 64 | 0.3 |
| 2005 | 49 | 15th lowest of 15 · 700% of median | 94 | 0.3 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+1 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.011).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 629 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 13% of the irrigation seasons in 1983-2005 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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