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BONUS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0500563 · 1 · SAINT VRAIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:34 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 1861-03-30 — 24th most senior of the 1289 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: BUTTON ROCK RES (1861-03-08). Immediately behind: HORNBAKER DITCH (1861-05-15).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4107.0 | 1861-03-30 | 1882-06-02 | 12.73 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGCUR | |
| 5629.0 | 1865-05-30 | 1882-06-02 | 10.5 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGCUR | |
| 62798.0 | 2021-12-07 | 2021-12-31 | 0.0 | 20.0 | C | AUGCUR |
Legal record & documents
11 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
21CW3209, CA1337, 20CW3179, 02CW0334.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
21CW3209 | 1 | 2021-12-31 | S |
CA1337 | 2 | 1882-06-02 | O |
20CW3179 | 4 | 1882-06-02 | O |
02CW0334 | 4 | 1882-06-02 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,246 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,003 AF — 80% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 1,246 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 132 | 18.6 |
| 2005 | 600 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 123 | 4.5 |
| 2006 | 795 | 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 100 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 1,525 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 116 | 21.0 |
| 2008 | 2,542 | 14th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 116 | 25.7 |
| 2009 | 620 | 4th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 43 | 12.8 |
| 2010 | 349 | 1st lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 52 | 13.4 |
| 2011 | 2,151 | 13th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 108 | 24.2 |
| 2012 | 2,027 | 12th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 152 | 33.4 |
| 2013 | 1,169 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 85 | 19.5 |
| 2014 | 1,534 | 11th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 81 | 31.4 |
| 2015 | 1,278 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 121 | 14.7 |
| 2016 | 506 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 95 | 8.1 |
| 2017 | 2,608 | 15th lowest of 15 · 209% of median | 144 | 22.0 |
| 2024 | 1,003 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 139 | 11.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 9018 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 57% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.