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BUTTE VALLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7900509 · 1 · HUERFANO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:23 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 1862-05-15 — 2nd most senior of the 930 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: BADITO & MARTIN DITCH 1 (1862-05-15). Immediately behind: BO BOYCE DITCH (1862-05-15).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4518.0 | 1862-05-15 | 1889-06-12 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1 |
| 5614.0 | 1865-05-15 | 1889-06-12 | 1.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 9 |
| 13284.0 | 1886-05-15 | 1889-06-12 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 86 |
| 14408.13284 | 1886-05-15 | 1898-02-23 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 450 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 545 AF — 121% 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 | 790 | 11th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 218 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 817 | 12th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 262 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 973 | 14th lowest of 15 · 216% of median | 306 | 12.8 |
| 2014 | 976 | 15th lowest of 15 · 217% of median | 212 | 8.6 |
| 2015 | 383 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 146 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 450 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 154 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 142 | 1st lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 73 | 2.4 |
| 2018 | 291 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 188 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 356 | 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 155 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 589 | 10th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 236 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 869 | 13th lowest of 15 · 193% of median | 229 | 6.3 |
| 2022 | 208 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 134 | 2.6 |
| 2023 | 294 | 4th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 99 | 4.3 |
| 2024 | 405 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 111 | 5.7 |
| 2025 | 545 | 9th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 172 | 4.1 |
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