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BEERY WELL 4-14609
Structure dossier · WDID 0105059 · 2 · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 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.
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 1901-03-01 — 363rd 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: BEERY WELL 3-14607 (1901-03-01). Immediately behind: BEERY WELL 5-1290 (1901-03-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18687.0 | 1901-03-01 | 1914-01-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 31563.0 | 1936-06-01 | 1970-12-31 | 2.36 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 295 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 368 AF — 125% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 223 | 6th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 85 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 198 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 68 | 2.5 |
| 2011 | 151 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 39 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 522 | 12th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 122 | 3.3 |
| 2013 | 125 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 61 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 272 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 120 | 1.5 |
| 2015 | 782 | 14th lowest of 15 · 265% of median | 143 | 3.4 |
| 2016 | 81 | 1st lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 39 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 302 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 123 | 2.8 |
| 2019 | 386 | 11th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 154 | 2.1 |
| 2020 | 295 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 124 | 1.9 |
| 2021 | 851 | 15th lowest of 15 · 288% of median | 154 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 190 | 4th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 124 | 2.5 |
| 2023 | 548 | 13th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 245 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 368 | 10th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 305 | 2.1 |
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