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BIJOU CANAL
Structure dossier · WDID 0100507 · 1 · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:15 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 1871-10-01 — 12th most senior of the 7705 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: DEUEL SNYDER CANAL (1871-04-02). Immediately behind: JOHNSON AND EDWARDS DITCH (1872-06-01).
Decreed rights (22)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7944.0 | 1871-10-01 | 1883-04-28 | 40.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 8511.0 | 1873-04-20 | 1883-04-28 | 16.32 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 11049.0 | 1880-04-01 | 1895-11-21 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 11804.0 | 1882-04-26 | 1895-11-21 | 30.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 14154.0 | 1888-10-01 | 1895-11-21 | 450.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 18353.0 | 1900-04-01 | 1914-01-15 | 50.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 21564.0 | 1909-01-15 | 1914-01-15 | 500.0 | 0.0 | C | STORCH | |
| 31423.29219 | 1929-12-31 | 1965-06-08 | 500.0 | 0.0 | C | STORCH | |
| 44706.0 | 1972-05-26 | 1972-12-31 | 600.0 | 0.0 | C | STORCH | |
| 48278.0 | 1982-03-07 | 1981-12-31 | 269.0 | 0.0 | C | STORCH | |
| 49733.0 | 1986-03-01 | 1986-12-31 | 75.0 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 49826.0 | 1986-06-02 | 1986-12-31 | 27.9 | 2.1 | C | STO | |
| 51488.0 | 1990-12-20 | 1990-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 52633.0 | 1994-02-07 | 1994-12-31 | 37.13 | 0.0 | C | RCH | |
| 53300.0 | 1995-12-06 | 1995-12-31 | 84.0 | 366.0 | C | RCH | |
| 54819.0 | 2000-02-02 | 2000-12-31 | 30.0 | 0.0 | C | AUGRCH | |
| 56008.0 | 2003-05-06 | 2003-12-31 | 45.95 | 304.05 | C | AUGRCH | |
| 56589.0 | 2004-12-07 | 2004-12-31 | 29779.0 | 43821.0 | A | RCH | |
| 56589.0 | 2004-12-07 | 2004-12-31 | 269.0 | 231.0 | C | RCH | |
| 56872.0 | 2005-09-16 | 2003-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | AUGRCH | |
| 57341.0 | 2006-12-29 | 2006-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | RCH | |
| 57341.0 | 2006-12-29 | 2006-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | RCH |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 90,061 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 91,651 AF — 102% of that, and 9th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 87,525 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | — | 233 | 397.5 |
| 2011 | 110,639 | 14th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | — | 280 | 409.0 |
| 2012 | 54,420 | 1st lowest of 15 · 60% of median | — | 282 | 244.5 |
| 2013 | 65,141 | 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | — | 203 | 476.0 |
| 2014 | 116,098 | 15th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | — | 260 | 460.2 |
| 2015 | 90,061 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 292 | 441.5 |
| 2016 | 83,290 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | — | 303 | 433.0 |
| 2017 | 104,157 | 13th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | — | 259 | 458.0 |
| 2018 | 78,906 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | — | 274 | 431.0 |
| 2019 | 101,335 | 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | — | 265 | 397.0 |
| 2020 | 56,257 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 62% of median | — | 221 | 298.0 |
| 2021 | 102,975 | 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | — | 251 | 420.0 |
| 2022 | 61,006 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | — | 263 | 956.0 |
| 2023 | 99,840 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | — | 292 | 384.0 |
| 2024 | 91,651 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | — | 255 | 373.9 |
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