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BUTTE RES
Structure dossier · WDID 4703598 · 3 · NORTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:29 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 1922-06-01 — 555th 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: BADGER DITCH (1921-10-05). Immediately behind: STATE WALDEN RES (1925-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30280.26449 | 1922-06-01 | 1939-06-20 | 934.7 | 0.0 | A | IRR | 17 |
| 50403.33754 | 1942-06-01 | 1988-12-31 | 3007.0 | 0.0 | A | RECFISSTK |
Recorded use (last 6 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 482 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 805 AF — 167% of that, and 6th lowest of the 6 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 255 | 2nd lowest of 6 · 53% of median | — | 48 | 2.9 |
| 2009 | 603 | 5th lowest of 6 · 125% of median | 603 | 40 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 40 | 1st lowest of 6 · 8% of median | 40 | 19 | 1.2 |
| 2016 | 598 | 4th lowest of 6 · 124% of median | — | 42 | 8.7 |
| 2017 | 365 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 76% of median | — | 16 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 805 | 6th lowest of 6 · 167% of median | — | 106 | 13.0 |
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