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BURNHAM EMERSON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0301038 · 1 · LONE PINE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:29 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
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 1871-04-01 — 109th most senior of the 2961 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: BONNER SPRING WELL (1870-12-31). Immediately behind: WILLIAM CALLOWAY DITCH 1 (1871-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7761.0 | 1871-04-01 | 1882-04-11 | 26.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,072 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,124 AF — 105% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 815 | 5th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 29 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 1,072 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 84 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 675 | 1st lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 64 | 10.0 |
| 2013 | 1,148 | 12th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 52 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 905 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 54 | 19.5 |
| 2015 | 734 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 59 | 16.0 |
| 2016 | 778 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 56 | 15.7 |
| 2017 | 796 | 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 54 | 19.0 |
| 2018 | 1,545 | 14th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 87 | 18.1 |
| 2019 | 1,079 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 108 | 13.6 |
| 2020 | 866 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 51 | 21.6 |
| 2021 | 1,140 | 11th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 100 | 14.4 |
| 2022 | 1,549 | 15th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 89 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 1,415 | 13th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 92 | 11.0 |
| 2024 | 1,124 | 10th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 78 | 11.0 |
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