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BUTTON NO 2 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5100555 · 1 · RASBERRY CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:39 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.

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 1888-06-20 — 67th most senior of the 2208 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: BEAVER DAM DITCH (1888-06-18). Immediately behind: BUTTON NO 3 DITCH (1888-06-20).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
14051.01888-06-201906-08-11 0.330.0 CIRR 63

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 37 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2005, came in at 31 AF — 84% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1986 44 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median 64 0.4
1987 103 15th lowest of 15 · 278% of median 63 1.0
1988 38 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median 61 0.5
1989 53 11th lowest of 15 · 143% of median 52 0.8
1990 93 14th lowest of 15 · 251% of median 60 1.0
1991 10 1st lowest of 15 · 27% of median 26 0.2
1992 32 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 27 0.7
1993 22 2nd lowest of 15 · 60% of median 26 0.5
1994 80 13th lowest of 15 · 216% of median 127 0.8
1996 33 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median 52 0.3
1997 34 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 54 0.5
1999 77 12th lowest of 15 · 208% of median 62 1.0
2000 37 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 26 1.0
2004 22 2nd lowest of 15 · 60% of median 36 0.5
2005 31 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 47 0.5

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