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VAN CLEAVE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7000597 · 1 · ROAN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:50 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 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 1884-08-10 — 11th most senior of the 519 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: UPPER ROAN CREEK DITCH (1884-08-10). Immediately behind: AQUA DITCH PUMP INTAKE (1884-08-10).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12641.0 | 1884-08-10 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 13102.0 | 1885-11-14 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 13634.0 | 1887-04-30 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 14718.1435 | 1889-04-15 | 1900-02-20 | 2.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 143A |
| 27132.27059 | 1924-02-01 | 1937-01-11 | 2.84 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 181U |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 573 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 378 AF — 66% of that, and 6th 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 | 1,604 | 15th lowest of 15 · 280% of median | 178 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 791 | 9th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 128 | 4.9 |
| 2012 | 1,057 | 13th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 188 | 4.6 |
| 2013 | 350 | 5th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 172 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 306 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 80 | 3.3 |
| 2015 | 834 | 10th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 209 | 3.7 |
| 2016 | 1,244 | 14th lowest of 15 · 217% of median | 157 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 874 | 11th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 123 | 5.7 |
| 2018 | 573 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 103 | 4.5 |
| 2019 | 956 | 12th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 162 | 8.2 |
| 2020 | 251 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 38 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 335 | 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 53 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 428 | 7th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 59 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 139 | 1st lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 65 | 1.5 |
| 2025 | 378 | 6th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 59 | 4.6 |
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