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BURLINGTON DITCH 3RD
Structure dossier · WDID 0200866 · DITCH · THIRD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:12 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 1887-09-15 — 740th 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: 8005090 (1887-07-18). Immediately behind: 0805557 (1887-10-25).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13772.0 | 1887-09-15 | 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 256 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 653 AF — 255% 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 | 90 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 35% of median | 28 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 620 | 9th lowest of 10 · 242% of median | 197 | 35.0 |
| 2017 | 311 | 6th lowest of 10 · 121% of median | 85 | 20.0 |
| 2018 | 168 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 66% of median | 78 | 10.0 |
| 2019 | 202 | 5th lowest of 10 · 79% of median | 110 | 6.0 |
| 2020 | 35 | 1st lowest of 10 · 14% of median | 22 | 4.7 |
| 2021 | 176 | 4th lowest of 10 · 69% of median | 77 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 368 | 7th lowest of 10 · 144% of median | 121 | 20.7 |
| 2023 | 580 | 8th lowest of 10 · 226% of median | 365 | 24.4 |
| 2024 | 653 | 10th lowest of 10 · 255% of median | 305 | 79.8 |
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 | 1388 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 72% 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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