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BUCK FARM DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800557 · 1 · FOURMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:50 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 in line
Priority 1884-10-15 — 139th most senior of the 4788 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: RALSTON NO 1 DITCH (1884-10-01). Immediately behind: OSCAR CERISE WELL 4 (1884-12-31).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12707.0 | 1884-10-15 | 1890-04-18 | 2.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 104B |
| 30941.25336 | 1919-05-15 | 1936-08-25 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 406B |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 145 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 202 AF — 139% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 282 | 13th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 124 | 1.8 |
| 2011 | 80 | 7th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 39 | 2.7 |
| 2012 | 55 | 5th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 32 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 229 | 10th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 44 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 275 | 12th lowest of 15 · 190% of median | 129 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 287 | 14th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 144 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 56 | 6th lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 44 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 145 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 39 | 3.0 |
| 2022 | 372 | 15th lowest of 15 · 257% of median | 77 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 251 | 11th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 96 | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 202 | 9th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 52 | 3.3 |
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