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BOURN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4001266 · 1 · DIRTY GEORGE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:48 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 1903-04-01 — 1550th 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: POISON SPRINGS DITCH (1903-04-01). Immediately behind: POISON SPRINGS RESERVOIR (1903-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29260.19448 | 1903-04-01 | 1937-05-28 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H43 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 258 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 150 AF — 58% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 27 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 67 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 258 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 129 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 192 | 7th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 96 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 174 | 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 110 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 337 | 10th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 203 | 2.3 |
| 2015 | 342 | 11th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 131 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 451 | 13th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 110 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 449 | 12th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 110 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 471 | 14th lowest of 15 · 183% of median | 130 | 2.6 |
| 2020 | 41 | 4th lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 26 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 14 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 10 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 295 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 87 | 2.5 |
| 2023 | 568 | 15th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 149 | 2.3 |
| 2024 | 150 | 5th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 85 | 1.0 |
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