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BUCKHORN HIGHLINE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0400574 · 1 · BUCKHORN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:45 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.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
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 1883-10-25 — 61st most senior of the 1296 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: ROCKWELL PUMPING PLANT 2 (1883-10-01). Immediately behind: ROCKWELL RES (1885-10-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14691.12351 | 1883-10-25 | 1916-06-29 | 9.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA4862, 98CW0254.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA4862 | 1 | 1916-06-29 | S |
98CW0254 | 2 | 1916-06-29 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 295 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 378 AF — 128% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 385 | 12th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 65 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 488 | 14th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 67 | 7.0 |
| 1993 | 563 | 15th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 55 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 349 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 44 | 6.0 |
| 1996 | 295 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 42 | 5.0 |
| 1997 | 482 | 13th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 49 | 7.0 |
| 1998 | 238 | 7th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 32 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 222 | 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 49 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 30 | 1st lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 6 | 6.0 |
| 2005 | 349 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 75 | 5.1 |
| 2006 | 46 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 14 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 77 | 4th lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 16 | 3.6 |
| 2008 | 34 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 8 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 189 | 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 25 | 5.9 |
| 2010 | 378 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 39 | 5.7 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-20 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.020).
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4347 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 34% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2010 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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