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CRESTED BUTTE WATER DITCH AND WILD CAT P
Structure dossier · WDID 5900842 · 1 · COAL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:18 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.
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 1893-09-01 — 173rd most senior of the 2360 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: HALAZON DITCH (1893-09-01). Immediately behind: KUBIACK DITCH (1894-04-25).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15950.0 | 1893-09-01 | 1941-04-29 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | STOMUNPWR | 5 |
| 19509.0 | 1903-06-01 | 1906-09-14 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFIRDOMOTHRCH | 164 |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
CA2021, 16CW3086, 16CW3085, 02CW0063.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2021 | 1 | 1941-04-29 | O |
16CW3086 | 1 | 1906-09-14 | O |
16CW3085 | 2 | 1906-09-14 | O |
02CW0063 | 1 | 1906-09-14 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 3 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 467 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2000, came in at 72 AF — 15% of that, and 1st lowest of the 3 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 705 | 3rd lowest of 3 · 151% of median | 143 | 3.2 |
| 1999 | 467 | 2nd lowest of 3 · 100% of median | 140 | 2.0 |
| 2000 | 72 | 1st lowest of 3 · 15% of median | 46 | 1.2 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 329 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 64% of the irrigation seasons in 1998-2000 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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