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Structure dossier · WDID 5800742 · 1 · BUTCHERKNIFE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:35 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 1905-06-01 — 672nd most senior of the 3097 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: PAT LUCAS DITCH (1902-06-15). Immediately behind: LUCAS SEEP WASTE D 1 (1910-06-15).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
35320.20241905-06-011953-03-09 1.00.0 CIRR 362

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, 2019, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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)
1991 181 13th lowest of 15 · 235% of median 196 0.8
1992 77 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 340 0.5
1993 55 6th lowest of 15 · 71% of median 365 0.1
1994 100 9th lowest of 15 · 130% of median 365 0.2
1995 66 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 365 0.1
1996 41 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median 305 0.1
1997 142 12th lowest of 15 · 184% of median 200 0.5
1998 137 11th lowest of 15 · 178% of median 200 0.5
1999 260 15th lowest of 15 · 338% of median 170 1.0
2000 120 10th lowest of 15 · 156% of median 186 0.5
2001 49 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median 124 0.2
2002 46 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median 124 0.2
2003 27 2nd lowest of 15 · 35% of median 95 0.2
2016 206 14th lowest of 15 · 268% of median 91 1.7
2019 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.