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Structure dossier · WDID 4703519 · 3 · BUTTE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 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 1972-02-18 — 947th 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: GINGER QUILL RES NO 2 (1967-04-25). Immediately behind: LARSON NO 1 RESERVOIR (1979-12-31).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50038.44608 | 1972-02-18 | 1987-12-31 | 20.87 | 0.0 | A | STORECFIS | |
| 50038.49207 | 1984-09-21 | 1987-12-31 | 20.87 | 0.0 | A | STORECFIS |
Recorded use (last 4 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 225 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2013, came in at 298 AF — 132% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 2 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 152 | 1st lowest of 2 · 68% of median | — | 96 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 298 | 2nd lowest of 2 · 132% of median | — | 145 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | — | no recorded volume | 88 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | — | no recorded volume | 530 | 0 | — |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.