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BIJOU LOST CR E POND

Structure dossier · WDID 0102042 · RECHARGE AREA · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record

Bijou Lost Cr E Pond is a water structure on South Platte River in Colorado. This page is its public record: the water it has a right to, whether it may take it today, and its history, compiled from the Colorado Division of Water Resources.

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR structure ↗ Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR diversion records ↗ Source Our computation, scored against a reference · scored against DWR's call analysis, see /methods

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-10-20 06:46 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260928 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (26fd646) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

In short

BIJOU LOST CR E POND holds 1 decreed right on SOUTH PLATTE RIVER. A call at PREWITT INLET CANAL on SOUTH PLATTE RIVER (1936-01-13) currently reaches it: fully called out. 3 further calls state no district and sit outside this one, so they are counted here rather than assumed either way. That is today's position; the weeks ahead cannot be projected for it: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it. In a median year over its last 15 recorded years it diverts 515 acre-feet. It was a party to 1 court cases that also touched 2 other structures.

Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (7 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.

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Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.

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Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv

What is in the bundle
  • rights.csv — every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.
  • annual_use.csv — recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.
  • curtailment_now.csv — each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.
  • court_cases.csv — the cases attached to its rights.
  • co_parties.csv — the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.
  • call_climatology.csv — how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.
  • README.txt — provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.

Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (administrative). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.

Current administration

● Fully called out — call at PREWITT INLET CANAL (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1936-01-13).

Which of its rights are out of priority?

The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it. Today’s position is a separate question, and it is answered in Current administration above — that screen reads the district’s active calls and needs no reference gage.

Where it sits in line

Priority 1986-06-02 — 3942nd most senior of the 7708 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: NORDMAN RANCH W KA-1 (1986-04-11). Immediately behind: BIJOU LOST CR W POND (1986-06-02).

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. Alt-pointAn absolute amount decreed at another structure that may be diverted here instead -- an alternate point of diversion or an exchange. DWR calls this the APEX amount; a right showing 0.0 absolute but an alt-point amount is exercised here under another structure's decree. Decreed forWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
49826.00000 1986-06-021986-12-31 60.0 AF 0.0 — Irrigation, Recreation +4 09CW0181, 86CW0386

Amounts marked cfs are flow rates; AF are stored volumes (storage rights are decreed in acre-feet). An absolute amount of 0.0 beside an alt-point amount is not a dead right: the water is decreed at another structure, and that row records permission to divert it here instead (an alternate point or exchange). A case listing several numbers reflects the original decree plus later change cases.

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 515 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 600 AF — 116% of that, and 11th lowest of the 15 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)
2011 1,177 15th lowest of 15 · 228% of median 122 10.6
2012 17 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median 3 4.6
2013 404 4th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 54 12.2
2014 636 13th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 150 7.9
2015 531 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median 150 6.0
2016 497 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 142 6.2
2017 446 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median 58 9.0
2018 629 12th lowest of 15 · 122% of median 100 6.2
2019 844 14th lowest of 15 · 164% of median 102 7.7
2020 302 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median 39 6.6
2021 461 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 120 4.9
2022 100 2nd lowest of 15 · 19% of median 13 5.6
2023 585 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 108 7.4
2024 515 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 96 5.7
2025 600 11th lowest of 15 · 116% of median 59 11.0

How good is our record of it?

Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.

The rubric, component by component
CheckStateDetail
identity complete name, type, and water source all on file
decreed rights on file 1 right(s), seniority decoded
diversion record present 1642 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against)
record continuity sparse 19% of the irrigation seasons in 1986-2025 carry measured days
published-record stability stable no upstream revisions recorded against this structure

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