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BIG BEND DITCH LEFT IN STREAM
Structure dossier · WDID 0202956 · OTHER · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:17 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.
Current administration
● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (23 active call(s) checked).
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 1873-09-26 — 437th most senior of the 21881 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: UNION DITCH (1873-09-26). Immediately behind: 0207203 (1873-09-26).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8670.0 | 1873-09-26 | 1883-04-28 | 101.0 | 0.0 | A | AUG |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
W7639.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W7639 | 1 | 1883-04-28 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 56 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 58 AF — 103% of that, and 7th lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 138 | 10th lowest of 10 · 244% of median | 138 | 154 | 1.4 |
| 2013 | 57 | 6th lowest of 10 · 101% of median | 57 | 137 | 0.4 |
| 2014 | 26 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 46% of median | 26 | 50 | 0.4 |
| 2016 | 44 | 4th lowest of 10 · 78% of median | 44 | 71 | 0.4 |
| 2019 | 37 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 66% of median | 37 | 91 | 0.4 |
| 2020 | 61 | 8th lowest of 10 · 108% of median | 61 | 154 | 0.4 |
| 2022 | 61 | 8th lowest of 10 · 108% of median | 61 | 154 | 0.4 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 0 | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 56 | 5th lowest of 10 · 99% of median | 56 | 366 | 0.4 |
| 2025 | 58 | 7th lowest of 10 · 103% of median | 58 | 304 | 0.4 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 10 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1542 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 53% of the irrigation seasons in 2012-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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