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BUCK DEER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000528 · 1 · MILK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1892-07-15 — 75th most senior of the 360 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: OAKS RESERVOIR (1890-09-30). Immediately behind: SMITH DITCH HGT 1 (1894-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20676.15537 | 1892-07-15 | 1911-08-03 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 83 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 366 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 805 | 15th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 149 | 8.0 |
| 1999 | 240 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 48 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 493 | 10th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 138 | 6.0 |
| 2001 | 358 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 73 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 436 | 9th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 189 | 6.1 |
| 2003 | 720 | 14th lowest of 15 · 197% of median | 112 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 511 | 11th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 97 | 8.0 |
| 2005 | 614 | 13th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 61 | 8.0 |
| 2006 | 365 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 57 | 6.0 |
| 2007 | 586 | 12th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 108 | 4.7 |
| 2008 | 289 | 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 63 | 3.8 |
| 2009 | 258 | 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 48 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 190 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 56 | 3.0 |
| 2011 | 366 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 47 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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