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BUTTE & BUTTE EX DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6200542 · 1 · LITTLE CIMARRON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:39 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 1906-05-11 — 197th most senior of the 1980 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: BAKER NO 2 DITCH (1906-05-11). Immediately behind: CATHEDRAL BRANCH IRR D (1906-05-11).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23138.20584 | 1906-05-11 | 1925-07-11 | 19.17 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 148 |
| 57283.0 | 2006-11-01 | 2006-12-31 | 1.7 | 0.0 | C | STK |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
06CW0240, CA3516.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
06CW0240 | 1 | 2006-12-31 | S |
CA3516 | 1 | 1925-07-11 | S |
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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,279 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 2,341 AF — 103% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,825 | 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 95 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 779 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 79 | 16.4 |
| 2013 | 593 | 1st lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 37 | 15.0 |
| 2014 | 2,279 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 71 | 24.0 |
| 2015 | 2,471 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 70 | 26.0 |
| 2016 | 1,715 | 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 92 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 1,538 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 147 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 1,806 | 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 191 | 8.5 |
| 2019 | 2,162 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 171 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 1,651 | 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 96 | 13.1 |
| 2021 | 3,596 | 14th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 181 | 19.0 |
| 2022 | 2,949 | 12th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 173 | 17.2 |
| 2023 | 3,002 | 13th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 182 | 15.0 |
| 2024 | 3,708 | 15th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 203 | 22.6 |
| 2025 | 2,341 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 164 | 20.8 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+138 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.048).
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 | 6540 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 59% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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