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BUD NO 3 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500532 · 1 · ALKALI CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:45 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 1929-05-05 — 340th most senior of the 1378 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: BUD NO 2 DITCH (1929-05-01). Immediately behind: BUD DITCH NO 3 (NEW) (1929-05-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37681.28979 | 1929-05-05 | 1965-07-09 | 0.86 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 238 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA4954, 99CW0041.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA4954 | 1 | 1965-07-09 | S |
99CW0041 | 1 | 1965-07-09 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 157 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2002, came in at 49 AF — 31% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 264 | 12th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 134 | 1.0 |
| 1989 | 157 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 80 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 63 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 107 | 0.3 |
| 1991 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 301 | 14th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 153 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 345 | 15th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 161 | 1.2 |
| 1994 | 274 | 13th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 139 | 1.0 |
| 1995 | 244 | 11th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 124 | 1.0 |
| 1996 | 117 | 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 60 | 1.0 |
| 1997 | 180 | 9th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 92 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 236 | 10th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 120 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 131 | 7th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 67 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 63 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 33 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 79 | 5th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 41 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 49 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 62 | 0.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1640 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 40% of the irrigation seasons in 1983-2002 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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