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DUTTON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700578 · 1 · BERRY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:49 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 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 1888-05-01 — 265th most senior of the 2162 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: MARUGG FOX FARM WELL (1906-12-31). Immediately behind: HAMMER DITCH (1900-09-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20973.14001 | 1888-05-01 | 1908-06-26 | 0.0628 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOM | 269A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 54 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1985, came in at 106 AF — 196% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 134 | 13th lowest of 15 · 248% of median | 128 | 0.6 |
| 1953 | 71 | 9th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 112 | 0.4 |
| 1954 | 28 | 6th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 77 | 0.3 |
| 1955 | 49 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 92 | 0.3 |
| 1956 | 78 | 10th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 164 | 0.3 |
| 1957 | 146 | 14th lowest of 15 · 270% of median | 144 | 0.6 |
| 1958 | 54 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 113 | 0.3 |
| 1974 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1983 | 187 | 15th lowest of 15 · 346% of median | 64 | 1.5 |
| 1984 | 109 | 12th lowest of 15 · 202% of median | 93 | 0.6 |
| 1985 | 106 | 11th lowest of 15 · 196% of median | 123 | 0.6 |
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