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BUTTON NO 4 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5100557 · 1 · RASBERRY CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:34 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 — 69th 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: BUTTON NO 3 DITCH (1888-06-20). Immediately behind: PEAVEY NO 2 DITCH (1888-06-25).

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 0.250.0 CIRR 61

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 42 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2005, came in at 40 AF — 95% of that, and 7th 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 57 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median 64 0.5
1987 59 12th lowest of 15 · 140% of median 63 0.5
1988 15 1st lowest of 15 · 36% of median 32 0.2
1989 68 13th lowest of 15 · 162% of median 61 0.8
1990 100 15th lowest of 15 · 238% of median 62 1.0
1991 48 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 57 0.8
1992 27 4th lowest of 15 · 64% of median 23 0.7
1993 21 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median 26 0.5
1994 80 14th lowest of 15 · 190% of median 128 0.8
1996 25 3rd lowest of 15 · 60% of median 52 0.2
1997 34 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median 54 0.5
1999 58 11th lowest of 15 · 138% of median 62 1.0
2000 30 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median 16 1.0
2004 42 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 38 1.0
2005 40 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 57 0.5

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