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BURKHART EDDY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6800514 · 1 · DALLAS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:47 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 1880-11-15 — 56th most senior of the 1293 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: SCOTT MCNEIL DITCH (1880-10-01). Immediately behind: VON HAGEN DALLAS DITCH (1880-12-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11277.0 | 1880-11-15 | 1897-05-15 | 13.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 41 |
| 46751.36676 | 1950-06-01 | 1978-12-31 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
W3437, CA0939.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W3437 | 1 | 1978-12-31 | S |
CA0939 | 1 | 1897-05-15 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,820 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,505 AF — 83% of that, and 4th 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 | 2,001 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 247 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 1,714 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 230 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 2,453 | 14th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 234 | 16.3 |
| 2014 | 2,022 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 297 | 21.7 |
| 2015 | 2,227 | 11th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 195 | 16.6 |
| 2016 | 2,242 | 12th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 184 | 16.4 |
| 2017 | 1,820 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 107 | 17.4 |
| 2018 | 836 | 1st lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 163 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 1,488 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 99 | 12.3 |
| 2020 | 1,163 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 172 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 1,743 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 121 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 1,692 | 5th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 250 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 4,320 | 15th lowest of 15 · 237% of median | 291 | 28.9 |
| 2024 | 2,272 | 13th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 213 | 17.5 |
| 2025 | 1,505 | 4th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 200 | 10.9 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 9615 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 45% of the irrigation seasons in 1925-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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