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BUCKHORN RESERVOIR #2
Structure dossier · WDID 4103650 · 3 · BEATON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:53 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 1884-03-18 — 46th most senior of the 1104 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: MARYS WELL NO 1 (1884-03-01). Immediately behind: BUCKHORN RESERVOIR #1 (1884-03-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12496.0 | 1884-03-18 | 1890-06-30 | 155.0 | 0.0 | A | IRR | 46 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 303 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2004, came in at 187 AF — 62% of that, and 1st lowest of the 3 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | — | no recorded volume | 330 | 0 | — |
| 1973 | — | no recorded volume | 595 | 0 | — |
| 1974 | — | no recorded volume | 611 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 885 | 3rd lowest of 3 · 292% of median | — | 93 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 303 | 2nd lowest of 3 · 100% of median | — | 50 | 3.1 |
| 2004 | 187 | 1st lowest of 3 · 62% of median | — | 51 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | — | no recorded volume | 471 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | — | no recorded volume | 309 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | — | no recorded volume | 507 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | — | no recorded volume | 151 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | — | no recorded volume | 252 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | — | no recorded volume | 193 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | — | no recorded volume | 354 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | — | no recorded volume | 295 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | — | no recorded volume | 274 | 0 | — |
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