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BEELINE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0400587 · 1 · LITTLE THOMPSON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:36 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 1887-05-31 — 67th most senior of the 1296 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: SUNDANCE CREEK (1886-05-01). Immediately behind: UNION DITCH (1889-10-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14691.13665 | 1887-05-31 | 1916-06-29 | 40.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 55840.0 | 2002-11-19 | 2002-12-31 | 24.0 | 76.0 | C | STO | |
| 56977.0 | 2005-12-30 | 2005-12-31 | 0.0 | 1000.0 | A | AUGCURRCH | |
| 56977.0 | 2005-12-30 | 2005-12-31 | 0.0 | 40.0 | C | AUGCURRCH |
Legal record & documents
19 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
05CW0331, 18CW3103, 02CW0269, CA4862.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
05CW0331 | 16 | 2005-12-31 | S |
18CW3103 | 1 | 2002-12-31 | S |
02CW0269 | 1 | 2002-12-31 | S |
CA4862 | 1 | 1916-06-29 | S |
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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,935 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 187 AF — 10% of that, and 3rd 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 | 1,498 | 7th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 116 | 15.0 |
| 2010 | 3,252 | 12th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 101 | 28.8 |
| 2011 | 2,862 | 11th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 118 | 23.7 |
| 2012 | 1,485 | 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 79 | 24.3 |
| 2013 | 1,043 | 5th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 54 | 19.4 |
| 2014 | 5,721 | 15th lowest of 15 · 296% of median | 144 | 35.6 |
| 2015 | 3,439 | 14th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 75 | 40.5 |
| 2016 | 2,671 | 10th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 81 | 34.5 |
| 2017 | 3,412 | 13th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 151 | 23.9 |
| 2018 | 1,935 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 82 | 27.0 |
| 2019 | 2,106 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 81 | 23.5 |
| 2020 | 835 | 4th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 59 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 165 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 19 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 145 | 1st lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 21 | 8.5 |
| 2023 | 187 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 23 | 8.5 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 23.8% of a median season / 0.9% dry-year.
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-188 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.029).
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
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 5539 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 35% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2023 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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