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BUENA VISTA INF GALLERY
Structure dossier · WDID 1100935 · 2 · COTTONWOOD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:14 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 1864-11-30 — 21st most senior of the 1489 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: BUENA VISTA TOWN INTAKE (1864-11-30). Immediately behind: THOMPSON DITCH (1864-12-19).
Decreed rights (8)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5448.0 | 1864-11-30 | 1890-06-19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFIRDOM | 2 |
| 5467.0 | 1864-12-19 | 1890-06-19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFIRDOM | 3 |
| 5964.0 | 1866-04-30 | 1890-06-19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFIRDOM | 9 |
| 5995.0 | 1866-05-31 | 1890-06-19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFIRDOM | 14 |
| 6056.0 | 1866-07-31 | 1890-06-19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFIRDOM | 15 |
| 8401.0 | 1872-12-31 | 1890-06-19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFIRDOM | 43 |
| 11110.0 | 1880-06-01 | 1903-07-14 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFIRDOMALL | NI6 |
| 53368.0 | 1996-02-12 | 1996-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 511 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 997 AF — 195% of that, and 11th lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 66 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 13% of median | 61 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 634 | 8th lowest of 11 · 124% of median | 304 | 2.2 |
| 2004 | 52 | 1st lowest of 11 · 10% of median | 59 | 0.6 |
| 2005 | 511 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 290 | 2.3 |
| 2017 | 70 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 14% of median | 61 | 0.8 |
| 2018 | 637 | 9th lowest of 11 · 125% of median | 365 | 1.9 |
| 2019 | 587 | 7th lowest of 11 · 115% of median | 304 | 2.0 |
| 2020 | 507 | 5th lowest of 11 · 99% of median | 214 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 278 | 4th lowest of 11 · 54% of median | 275 | 1.8 |
| 2022 | 860 | 10th lowest of 11 · 168% of median | 365 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 997 | 11th lowest of 11 · 195% of median | 304 | 3.5 |
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