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BURG DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 6300509 · 1 · WEST CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:39 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.
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 1897-08-15 — 188th most senior of the 533 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: SMITH D NO 1 EXT (1897-05-15). Immediately behind: BURG DITCH NO 2 (1897-08-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30079.17394 | 1897-08-15 | 1939-02-11 | 1.04 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 30 |
| 32547.0 | 1939-02-10 | 1939-02-11 | 2.08 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 25 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 84 AF — 336% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 165 | 15th lowest of 15 · 660% of median | 58 | 5.0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 9 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 19 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 14 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 25 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 15 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | 51 | 9th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 65 | 0.8 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 123 | 14th lowest of 15 · 492% of median | 25 | 3.9 |
| 2020 | 60 | 10th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | 21 | 2.4 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 66 | 11th lowest of 15 · 264% of median | 48 | 0.8 |
| 2023 | 66 | 11th lowest of 15 · 264% of median | 44 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 84 | 13th lowest of 15 · 336% of median | 24 | 1.8 |
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