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TRINIDAD BACA DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1600847 · 1 · BEAR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:31 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 1870-05-25 — 64th most senior of the 1044 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: R B WILLIS DITCH (1870-05-10). Immediately behind: LABRIE DITCH (1870-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7450.0 | 1870-05-25 | 1889-06-12 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 16 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 47 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1993, came in at 73 AF — 155% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 20 | 5th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 32 | 0.4 |
| 1980 | 44 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 76 | 0.4 |
| 1981 | 15 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 38 | 0.4 |
| 1982 | 47 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 66 | 0.4 |
| 1983 | 128 | 11th lowest of 15 · 272% of median | 44 | 1.5 |
| 1984 | 309 | 15th lowest of 15 · 657% of median | 81 | 2.0 |
| 1985 | 145 | 13th lowest of 15 · 308% of median | 75 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 102 | 10th lowest of 15 · 217% of median | 59 | 1.5 |
| 1987 | 292 | 14th lowest of 15 · 621% of median | 62 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 132 | 12th lowest of 15 · 281% of median | 136 | 0.5 |
| 1989 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 15 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 20 | 0.4 |
| 1991 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 6 | 0.1 |
| 1992 | 40 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 55 | 0.4 |
| 1993 | 73 | 9th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 95 | 0.4 |
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