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WEST BOETTCHER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700948 · 1 · UTE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:38 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1916-09-01 — 548th 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: MEXICAN RESERVOIR (1915-06-01). Immediately behind: WILLS RES (1917-07-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30280.2435 | 1916-09-01 | 1939-06-20 | 27.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 717 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 942 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 233 AF — 25% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 1,924 | 15th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 77 | 18.0 |
| 2006 | 1,527 | 14th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 92 | 20.0 |
| 2007 | 1,428 | 13th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 76 | 15.0 |
| 2008 | 1,281 | 11th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 52 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 1,333 | 12th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 46 | 22.0 |
| 2010 | 1,216 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 46 | 24.0 |
| 2012 | 301 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 22 | 8.0 |
| 2013 | 508 | 6th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 34 | 8.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 942 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 48 | 15.0 |
| 2016 | 429 | 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 30 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 847 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 62 | 12.6 |
| 2018 | 477 | 5th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 47 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 1,100 | 9th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 31 | 28.3 |
| 2025 | 233 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 37 | 3.3 |
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