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BULL CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200558 · 1 · BULL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1882-12-31 — 1st most senior of the 2166 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 behind: DUNLAP NO 1 D (PLATEAU) (1883-03-01).
Decreed rights (7)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12053.0 | 1882-12-31 | 1890-02-07 | 6.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 37 |
| 22729.18353 | 1900-04-01 | 1912-07-22 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 22995.15582 | 1892-08-29 | 1916-06-01 | 1.89 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 30895.13584 | 1887-03-11 | 1941-07-25 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | DOM | |
| 30895.23498 | 1914-05-03 | 1941-07-25 | 0.36 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 32811.0 | 1939-11-01 | 1941-07-25 | 2.986 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 54056.48882 | 1983-11-01 | 1998-12-31 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | STK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,967 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 3,318 AF — 112% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,333 | 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 365 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 4,106 | 15th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 365 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 2,971 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 296 | 10.7 |
| 2013 | 2,427 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 162 | 12.4 |
| 2014 | 2,916 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 184 | 14.9 |
| 2015 | 3,237 | 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 206 | 19.2 |
| 2016 | 2,939 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 178 | 21.7 |
| 2017 | 2,967 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 159 | 23.1 |
| 2018 | 1,819 | 1st lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 272 | 11.2 |
| 2019 | 3,485 | 14th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 365 | 16.2 |
| 2020 | 2,161 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 305 | 10.6 |
| 2021 | 2,343 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 270 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 2,823 | 5th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 365 | 14.4 |
| 2023 | 3,364 | 13th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 353 | 19.4 |
| 2024 | 3,318 | 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 305 | 16.8 |
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