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BURLINGTON DITCH 2ND
Structure dossier · WDID 0200865 · DITCH · SECOND CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:08 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.
Current administration
● Fully called out — call at LOWER LATHAM DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1877-11-14).
● Fully called out — call at WESTERN MUTUAL DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1871-08-09).
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 1886-11-15 — 723rd 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: 2300715 (1886-10-01). Immediately behind: 0805771 (1886-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13468.0 | 1886-11-15 | 1893-07-08 | 249.9967 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGCUR |
Legal record & documents
25 decreed actions on record across
12 court cases:
CA11200, 95CW0227, 90CW0229, 87CW0107, 15CW3012, 10CW0304, 09CW0144, 05CW0010, 03CW0320, 02CW0403 and 2 more below.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA11200 | 1 | 1893-07-08 | S |
95CW0227 | 2 | 1893-07-08 | S |
90CW0229 | 2 | 1893-07-08 | S |
87CW0107 | 2 | 1893-07-08 | S |
15CW3012 | 4 | 1893-07-08 | S |
10CW0304 | 2 | 1893-07-08 | S |
09CW0144 | 2 | 1893-07-08 | S |
05CW0010 | 2 | 1893-07-08 | S |
03CW0320 | 2 | 1893-07-08 | S |
02CW0403 | 2 | 1893-07-08 | S |
01CW0258 | 2 | 1893-07-08 | S |
00CW0202 | 2 | 1893-07-08 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 120 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,081 AF — 905% of that, and 10th lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4 | 1st lowest of 10 · 3% of median | 6 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 367 | 8th lowest of 10 · 307% of median | 161 | 19.2 |
| 2017 | 165 | 7th lowest of 10 · 138% of median | 57 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 25 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 21% of median | 35 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 44 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 37% of median | 48 | 2.7 |
| 2020 | 63 | 4th lowest of 10 · 53% of median | 63 | 4.7 |
| 2021 | 161 | 6th lowest of 10 · 135% of median | 119 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 78 | 5th lowest of 10 · 65% of median | 93 | 9.5 |
| 2023 | 645 | 9th lowest of 10 · 540% of median | 365 | 20.4 |
| 2024 | 1,081 | 10th lowest of 10 · 905% of median | 305 | 90.7 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 24.1% of a median season / 0.9% dry-year.
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 10 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1252 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 66% of the irrigation seasons in 2015-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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