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BURD DITCH NO 6
Structure dossier · WDID 2001897 · 1 · RATON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:11 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 1996-11-01 — 7805th most senior of the 8016 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: BURD DITCH NO 5 (1996-11-01). Immediately behind: BURD DITCH NO 7 (1996-11-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53631.0 | 1996-11-01 | 1996-12-31 | 0.5 | 0.5 | C | IRRRECFISSTKWLD |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
96CW0047, 21CW0032, 13CW0014.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
96CW0047 | 1 | 1996-12-31 | S |
21CW0032 | 1 | 1996-12-31 | S |
13CW0014 | 1 | 1996-12-31 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 17 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 7 AF — 41% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 62 | 13th lowest of 15 · 365% of median | 201 | 0.3 |
| 2006 | 55 | 11th lowest of 15 · 324% of median | 219 | 0.3 |
| 2007 | 99 | 14th lowest of 15 · 582% of median | 140 | 0.5 |
| 2008 | 127 | 15th lowest of 15 · 747% of median | 184 | 0.3 |
| 2009 | 61 | 12th lowest of 15 · 359% of median | 159 | 0.2 |
| 2010 | 14 | 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 140 | 0.1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 16 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 35 | 0.2 |
| 2015 | 45 | 10th lowest of 15 · 265% of median | 122 | 0.2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 25 | 9th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 64 | 0.2 |
| 2022 | 12 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 40 | 0.2 |
| 2023 | 17 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 61 | 0.2 |
| 2024 | 7 | 4th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 42 | 0.1 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-3 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.042).
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 | 1481 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 34% of the irrigation seasons in 2004-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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