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BURNS DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 4000961 · 1 · RUNZEL GULCH · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:50 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

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 1909-07-01 — 1420th 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: H. BERRY DITCH - TUIN ALTERNATE POINT #2 (1909-06-04). Immediately behind: ALUM GULCH AMENDED DITCH (1909-07-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
25807.217311909-07-011930-02-10 1.00.0 CIRRDOM G-58
36250.01949-04-011954-03-20 2.250.0 CIRRDOMSTK J333, J334

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 36 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2016, came in at 60 AF — 167% of that, and 11th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2002 35 5th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 245 0.1
2003 39 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median 365 0.1
2004 29 3rd lowest of 15 · 81% of median 305 0.1
2005 38 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 245 0.1
2006 36 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 365 0.1
2007 36 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 365 0.1
2008 36 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 366 0.1
2009 61 12th lowest of 15 · 169% of median 365 0.3
2010 144 15th lowest of 15 · 400% of median 304 0.3
2011 34 4th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 133 0.2
2012 28 2nd lowest of 15 · 78% of median 305 0.1
2013 2 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median 61 0.0
2014 136 14th lowest of 15 · 378% of median 365 0.5
2015 98 13th lowest of 15 · 272% of median 365 0.3
2016 60 11th lowest of 15 · 167% of median 305 0.5

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