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RUFFE WADE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6800721 · 1 · DALLAS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:58 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 1949-07-15 — 298th most senior of the 1293 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: BILLY CREEK WELL (1948-07-14). Immediately behind: MIKE CUDDIGAN DITCH (1950-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36355.0 | 1949-07-15 | 1961-04-14 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 33 |
| 39664.0 | 1958-08-06 | 1961-04-14 | 9.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 60 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 54 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 155 AF — 287% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 60 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 15 | 2.7 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 8 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 50 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 21 | 1.9 |
| 2015 | 54 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 26 | 1.9 |
| 2016 | 11 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 48 | 0.2 |
| 2017 | 11 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 14 | 5.7 |
| 2018 | 12 | 5th lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 18 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 165 | 11th lowest of 15 · 306% of median | 90 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 29 | 6th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 43 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 173 | 12th lowest of 15 · 320% of median | 94 | 2.2 |
| 2022 | 260 | 13th lowest of 15 · 482% of median | 41 | 5.4 |
| 2023 | 290 | 14th lowest of 15 · 537% of median | 103 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 462 | 15th lowest of 15 · 856% of median | 70 | 6.3 |
| 2025 | 155 | 10th lowest of 15 · 287% of median | 45 | 2.7 |
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