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CLIFF RANCH DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 6300518 · 1 · WEST CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 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 1900-02-01 — 196th most senior of the 533 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: BARTHOLOMEW AND HATCH D (1900-02-01). Immediately behind: COTTONWOOD DITCH (1900-02-01).

Decreed rights (7)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
30079.182941900-02-011939-02-11 0.00.0 CIRRDOM 36, 37
30079.183831900-05-011939-02-11 0.00.0 CIRR 38
30079.191581902-06-151939-02-11 0.00.0 CIRR 42
30079.221881910-10-011939-02-11 3.880.0 CIRRDOM 62, 63
30079.250021918-06-151939-02-11 0.00.0 CIRR 83, 84
30079.265811922-10-111939-02-11 0.00.0 CIRR 87
32547.01939-02-101939-02-11 3.340.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 955 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 617 AF — 65% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 936 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 186 4.0
2012 614 2nd lowest of 15 · 64% of median 179 3.0
2013 459 1st lowest of 15 · 48% of median 128 3.2
2014 790 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median 163 4.8
2015 788 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 185 5.5
2016 1,324 13th lowest of 15 · 139% of median 206 6.7
2017 1,578 15th lowest of 15 · 165% of median 242 6.6
2018 818 6th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 221 4.6
2019 1,556 14th lowest of 15 · 163% of median 248 5.6
2020 1,157 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median 249 5.1
2021 992 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 213 5.8
2022 1,199 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median 224 5.7
2023 1,158 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median 160 6.2
2024 955 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 133 6.4
2025 617 3rd lowest of 15 · 65% of median 170 4.3

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.