Hydrohistorian
← My Water · Print / save as PDF
LINN AND CLARK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7800578 · 1 · DUTTON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:52 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1902-06-14 — 90th most senior of the 366 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: WOODHOUSE NO 2 DITCH AP (1902-05-15). Immediately behind: LINN AND CLARK RESERVOIR (1902-06-14).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22962.19157 | 1902-06-14 | 1928-06-05 | 36.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | #195 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 560 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2018, came in at 811 AF — 145% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 240 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 104 | 3.7 |
| 2001 | 414 | 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 91 | 3.9 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 13 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 379 | 5th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 112 | 4.1 |
| 2004 | 258 | 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 134 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 560 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 149 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 121 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 74 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 446 | 7th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 62 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 1,248 | 14th lowest of 15 · 223% of median | 170 | 6.7 |
| 2009 | 860 | 12th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 128 | 8.1 |
| 2010 | 609 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 92 | 6.4 |
| 2011 | 1,050 | 13th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 177 | 4.5 |
| 2016 | 1,329 | 15th lowest of 15 · 237% of median | 221 | 5.8 |
| 2017 | 617 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 114 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 811 | 11th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 141 | 5.0 |
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.