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BEER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1700561 · 1 · ADOBE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:22 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 1903-03-15 — 82nd most senior of the 1909 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: TWO SPRINGS DITCH (1902-12-31). Immediately behind: DYE RESERVOIR (1903-10-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20186.19431 | 1903-03-15 | 1922-08-30 | 100.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 63 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
21CW3078, 08/30/1922.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
21CW3078 | 1 | 1922-08-30 | S |
08/30/1922 | 1 | 1922-08-30 | 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 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 347 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2013, came in at 218 AF — 63% of that, and 5th lowest of the 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1970 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1971 | 198 | 4th lowest of 13 · 57% of median | 10 | 25.0 |
| 1972 | 545 | 10th lowest of 13 · 157% of median | 18 | 75.0 |
| 1973 | 347 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 7 | 50.0 |
| 1991 | 1,018 | 12th lowest of 13 · 293% of median | 6 | 230.0 |
| 1998 | 20 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 6% of median | 4 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 577 | 11th lowest of 13 · 166% of median | 5 | 97.0 |
| 2001 | 397 | 8th lowest of 13 · 114% of median | 4 | 100.0 |
| 2004 | 440 | 9th lowest of 13 · 127% of median | 9 | 57.0 |
| 2007 | 1,339 | 13th lowest of 13 · 386% of median | 10 | 100.0 |
| 2008 | 298 | 6th lowest of 13 · 86% of median | 4 | 100.0 |
| 2013 | 218 | 5th lowest of 13 · 63% of median | 4 | 100.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 13 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | fragment | 83 measured day(s) on file (under 180 -- a season, not a history) |
| record continuity | unknown | record too short to assess continuity (needs 2+ years of span and 180+ measured days) |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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