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LUPTON BOTTOM DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0200812 · DITCH · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (e70d0b5) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Current administration
● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (23 active call(s) checked).
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1863-05-15 — 124th most senior of the 21881 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: 8005004 (1863-05-01). Immediately behind: 0203359 (1863-05-15).
Decreed rights (19)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4883.0 | 1863-05-15 | 1883-04-28 | 47.7 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDAUGCURRCHALL | |
| 7739.0 | 1871-03-10 | 1883-04-28 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDAUGCURRCHALL | |
| 8659.0 | 1873-09-15 | 1883-04-28 | 92.87 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDAUGCURRCHALL | |
| 51864.0 | 1991-12-31 | 1991-12-31 | 0.0 | 150.0 | C | STO | |
| 51864.51864 | 1991-12-31 | 1992-12-31 | 15.97 | 99.03 | C | STORCH | |
| 52886.0 | 1994-10-18 | 1994-12-31 | 40.2 | 59.8 | C | STORCH | |
| 53691.0 | 1996-12-31 | 1996-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNALL | |
| 56602.0 | 2004-12-20 | 2004-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNALL | |
| 56977.0 | 2005-12-30 | 2005-12-31 | 0.0 | 20000.0 | A | AUGCURRCH | |
| 56977.0 | 2005-12-30 | 2005-12-31 | 0.0 | 100.0 | C | AUGCURRCH | |
| 57096.0 | 2006-04-28 | 2006-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNALL | |
| 57194.0 | 2006-08-04 | 2006-12-31 | 0.0 | 115.0 | C | MUN | |
| 57395.0 | 2007-02-21 | 2002-12-31 | 0.0 | 150.0 | C | MUN | |
| 58438.0 | 2009-12-30 | 2009-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 59169.0 | 2011-12-31 | 2011-12-31 | 0.0 | 150.0 | C | COMINDFIRAUG | |
| 59382.0 | 2012-07-31 | 2012-12-31 | 0.0 | 150.0 | C | COMINDFIRAUG | |
| 59747.0 | 2013-07-31 | 2013-12-31 | 0.0 | 150.0 | C | MUN | |
| 60201.0 | 2014-10-28 | 2014-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | AUGCUR | |
| 60201.0 | 2014-10-28 | 2014-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | AUGCUR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 18,231 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 18,532 AF — 102% of that, and 10th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 18,231 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 206 | 100.9 |
| 2012 | 20,367 | 14th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | — | 227 | 82.9 |
| 2013 | 18,100 | 6th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | — | 177 | 114.8 |
| 2014 | 15,588 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 86% of median | — | 270 | 85.6 |
| 2015 | 4,108 | 1st lowest of 15 · 22% of median | — | 226 | 31.8 |
| 2016 | 16,130 | 4th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | — | 206 | 80.0 |
| 2017 | 18,169 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 220 | 82.9 |
| 2018 | 19,044 | 12th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | — | 207 | 85.7 |
| 2019 | 20,221 | 13th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | — | 206 | 95.8 |
| 2020 | 18,604 | 11th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | — | 276 | 84.0 |
| 2021 | 18,461 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | — | 214 | 79.5 |
| 2022 | 17,487 | 5th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | — | 307 | 62.7 |
| 2023 | 12,473 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | — | 365 | 65.0 |
| 2024 | 21,055 | 15th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | — | 366 | 77.9 |
| 2025 | 18,532 | 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | — | 304 | 70.1 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 52.1% of a median season / 29.9% dry-year.
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.