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Structure dossier · WDID 5700501 · 1 · BUCHANAN GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 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 1909-06-15 — 112th most senior of the 1003 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: H G SHALLOW WELL 1 (1901-07-01). Immediately behind: BASIN RES (1909-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23654.21715 | 1909-06-15 | 1915-06-29 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 86BB |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 77 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2020, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 345 | 10th lowest of 15 · 448% of median | 85 | 3.0 |
| 1939 | 742 | 14th lowest of 15 · 964% of median | 140 | 4.0 |
| 1941 | 4,915 | 15th lowest of 15 · 6383% of median | 214 | 12.0 |
| 1942 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 1943 | 395 | 11th lowest of 15 · 513% of median | 105 | 2.5 |
| 1945 | 431 | 12th lowest of 15 · 560% of median | 91 | 2.5 |
| 1948 | 451 | 13th lowest of 15 · 586% of median | 95 | 2.5 |
| 1972 | 77 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 40 | 1.0 |
| 1973 | 30 | 7th lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 11 | 1.5 |
| 1978 | 125 | 9th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 23 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 18 | 6th lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 10 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
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