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NEW BURT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000810 · 1 · CURRANT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:36 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 1885-10-01 — 1203rd most senior of the 4661 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: FULLER DITCH NO 2 (1885-10-01). Immediately behind: BURT AND THOMPSON DITCH (1885-10-01).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21089.13058 | 1885-10-01 | 1908-03-20 | 0.45 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1.5 |
| 21089.13119 | 1885-12-01 | 1908-03-20 | 0.0375 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 2 |
| 21089.1315 | 1886-01-01 | 1908-03-20 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 2.5 |
| 21089.14914 | 1890-10-31 | 1908-03-20 | 0.2625 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 3 |
| 21089.17956 | 1899-02-28 | 1908-03-20 | 0.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6 |
| 31924.2286 | 1912-08-03 | 1954-03-20 | 3.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | J148 |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA3503, CA0894.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3503 | 1 | 1954-03-20 | S |
CA0894 | 5 | 1908-03-20 | 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 6 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 688 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1979, came in at 796 AF — 116% of that, and 6th lowest of the 6 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 458 | 1st lowest of 6 · 67% of median | 127 | 2.2 |
| 1975 | 604 | 2nd lowest of 6 · 88% of median | 136 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 750 | 5th lowest of 6 · 109% of median | 181 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 736 | 4th lowest of 6 · 107% of median | 214 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 639 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 93% of median | 181 | 4.6 |
| 1979 | 796 | 6th lowest of 6 · 116% of median | 175 | 3.3 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 6 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1014 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 87% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-1979 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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