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BUTLER #6 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4701308 · 1 · BUTLER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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 — 1081st 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: BUTLER #5 DITCH (1960-09-01). Immediately behind: DOUBLE X SPRING #1 (1991-09-13).
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 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 216 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 242 AF — 112% of that, and 5th lowest of the 8 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 | 190 | 4th lowest of 8 · 88% of median | 50 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 54 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 25% of median | 28 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 247 | 6th lowest of 8 · 114% of median | 47 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 8 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 173 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 80% of median | 34 | 2.7 |
| 2022 | 471 | 8th lowest of 8 · 218% of median | 50 | 8.2 |
| 2023 | 327 | 7th lowest of 8 · 151% of median | 46 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 242 | 5th lowest of 8 · 112% of median | 43 | 2.9 |
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