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BUTLER #5 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700535 · 1 · BUTLER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:06 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1960-09-01 — 1080th most senior of the 1262 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: ERNIE SPRING #4 (1958-12-31). Immediately behind: BUTLER #6 DITCH (1960-09-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54056.40421 | 1960-09-01 | 1998-12-31 | 4.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 151 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 151 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 122 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 69 | 1.5 |
| 2007 | 193 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 70 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 125 | 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 51 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 148 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 52 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 94 | 4th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 52 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 37 | 1st lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 38 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 81 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 42 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 246 | 13th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 63 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 173 | 10th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 34 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 65 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 23 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 279 | 14th lowest of 15 · 185% of median | 64 | 2.5 |
| 2019 | 220 | 12th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 63 | 4.5 |
| 2022 | 284 | 15th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 50 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 169 | 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 46 | 2.3 |
| 2024 | 151 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 44 | 1.9 |
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