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BULL CANAL RES NO 8
Structure dossier · WDID 0203351 · RESERVOIR · BIG DRY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:42 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 1976-05-06 — 7504th 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: 2305451 (1976-04-26). Immediately behind: 0205088 (1976-05-06).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46147.0 | 1976-05-06 | 1976-12-31 | 684.2 | 7548.2 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMSTKOTH | |
| 53482.0 | 1996-06-05 | 1996-12-31 | 761.37 | 0.0 | A | MUN |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
96CW1035, 82CW0332, W8445, 86CW0353.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
96CW1035 | 1 | 1996-12-31 | S |
82CW0332 | 2 | 1982-12-31 | S |
W8445 | 3 | 1976-12-31 | S |
86CW0353 | 2 | 1976-12-31 | 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 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,707 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 2,284 AF — 134% of that, and 6th lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | — | no recorded volume | 3,185 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | — | no recorded volume | 3,014 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | — | no recorded volume | 2,681 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | — | no recorded volume | 3,381 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | — | no recorded volume | 2,291 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | — | no recorded volume | 2,173 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 156 | 1st lowest of 7 · 9% of median | 374 | 35 | 2.8 |
| 2019 | 2,416 | 7th lowest of 7 · 142% of median | 1,085 | 365 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 2,040 | 5th lowest of 7 · 120% of median | 1,600 | 366 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 1,707 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 1,417 | 365 | 6.8 |
| 2022 | 518 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 30% of median | 1,044 | 261 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 329 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 19% of median | 186 | 365 | 6.6 |
| 2024 | 2,284 | 6th lowest of 7 · 134% of median | 886 | 305 | 6.7 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2062 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 26% of the irrigation seasons in 1987-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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