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BERGEN NO 1 WEST RES
Structure dossier · WDID 0904274 · 3 · TURKEY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:19 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 1874-05-01 — 115th most senior of the 2058 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: 0903689 (1874-05-01). Immediately behind: BERGEN NO 2 EAST RES (1874-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8887.0 | 1874-05-01 | 1884-02-04 | 157.5 | 0.0 | A | IRR | |
| 12479.0 | 1884-03-01 | 1935-09-24 | 89.04 | 0.0 | A | IRR | |
| 61342.0 | 2017-12-12 | 2017-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRRECFIS |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
17CW3192, CA91471, 82CW0476, CA6832.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
17CW3192 | 1 | 2017-12-31 | S |
CA91471 | 1 | 1935-09-24 | S |
82CW0476 | 2 | 1935-09-24 | O, S |
CA6832 | 1 | 1884-02-04 | 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 288 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 247 AF — 86% of that, and 5th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 23 | 1st lowest of 14 · 8% of median | — | 14 | 1.6 |
| 1991 | 140 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 49% of median | — | 67 | 4.8 |
| 2009 | 266 | 6th lowest of 14 · 92% of median | 442 | 55 | 15.1 |
| 2010 | 267 | 7th lowest of 14 · 93% of median | 209 | 17 | 10.4 |
| 2011 | 489 | 14th lowest of 14 · 170% of median | 488 | 76 | 10.2 |
| 2012 | 363 | 11th lowest of 14 · 126% of median | — | 65 | 6.1 |
| 2013 | — | no recorded volume | 15 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 381 | 12th lowest of 14 · 132% of median | — | 66 | 5.7 |
| 2018 | 418 | 13th lowest of 14 · 145% of median | — | 68 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 347 | 10th lowest of 14 · 120% of median | — | 24 | 11.2 |
| 2020 | 220 | 4th lowest of 14 · 76% of median | 40 | 13 | 13.6 |
| 2021 | 315 | 9th lowest of 14 · 109% of median | 188 | 24 | 9.1 |
| 2022 | 309 | 8th lowest of 14 · 107% of median | 91 | 34 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 218 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 76% of median | 124 | 24 | 12.2 |
| 2024 | 247 | 5th lowest of 14 · 86% of median | 28 | 18 | 15.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 14 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1989 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 19% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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