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BURBACK PUMPING PLANT
Structure dossier · WDID 5700509 · 8 · YAMPA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 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.
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 1883-04-15 — 7th 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: BROCK DITCH (1883-03-30). Immediately behind: SHELTON DITCH (1883-04-15).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12158.0 | 1883-04-15 | 1892-09-22 | 0.36 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 4 |
| 14183.0 | 1888-10-30 | 1892-09-22 | 1.08 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 37 |
| 34139.14183 | 1888-10-30 | 1948-07-12 | 1.44 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 180 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 159 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 125 | 7th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 25 | 3.0 |
| 1996 | 89 | 6th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 18 | 3.0 |
| 1997 | 60 | 4th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 12 | 3.0 |
| 2006 | 365 | 13th lowest of 15 · 230% of median | 50 | 4.0 |
| 2007 | 212 | 9th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 38 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 264 | 10th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 38 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 159 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 25 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 83 | 5th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 16 | 3.0 |
| 2011 | 11 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 25 | 0.2 |
| 2012 | 446 | 15th lowest of 15 · 280% of median | 95 | 2.5 |
| 2013 | 351 | 12th lowest of 15 · 221% of median | 50 | 13.8 |
| 2014 | 278 | 11th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 41 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 399 | 14th lowest of 15 · 251% of median | 56 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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