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BURTON POINT OF DIVERSION NO. 3

Structure dossier · WDID 6300813 · 1 · DOLORES RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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 1930-03-01 — 235th 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: BURTON POINT OF DIVERSION NO. 2 (1930-03-01). Immediately behind: BURTON POINT OF DIVERSION NO. 4 (1930-03-01).

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
30079.292791930-03-011939-02-11 1.00.0 CIRR 89

Recorded use (last 13 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 40 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 29 AF — 72% of that, and 5th lowest of the 13 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)
2013 83 13th lowest of 13 · 208% of median 90 0.7
2014 20 3rd lowest of 13 · 50% of median 64 0.5
2015 55 12th lowest of 13 · 138% of median 93 0.5
2016 18 2nd lowest of 13 · 45% of median 45 0.5
2017 26 4th lowest of 13 · 65% of median 54 0.5
2018 42 8th lowest of 13 · 105% of median 84 0.7
2019 44 9th lowest of 13 · 110% of median 62 0.9
2020 40 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median 70 0.7
2021 15 1st lowest of 13 · 38% of median 89 0.2
2022 48 10th lowest of 13 · 120% of median 67 0.7
2023 50 11th lowest of 13 · 125% of median 72 0.7
2024 32 6th lowest of 13 · 80% of median 71 0.4
2025 29 5th lowest of 13 · 72% of median 37 0.7

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