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BIEBEL DITCHES NOS 1&2
Structure dossier · WDID 2800515 · 1 · TOMICHI CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:23 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 1876-09-30 — 1st most senior of the 1505 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 behind: CABIN CREEK DITCH (1877-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9770.0 | 1876-09-30 | 1894-05-01 | 8.94 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISAUGWLD | 1 |
| 28311.09743 | 1876-09-03 | 1943-04-19 | 32.681 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISAUGWLD | 199 |
| 57109.0 | 2006-05-11 | 2006-12-31 | 0.0 | 7.0 | C | STO |
Legal record & documents
13 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
06CW0123, CA2079, 16CW3089, CA0946, 12CW0067.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
06CW0123 | 5 | 2006-12-31 | O, S |
CA2079 | 1 | 1943-04-19 | S |
16CW3089 | 4 | 1943-04-19 | O, S |
CA0946 | 2 | 1894-05-01 | O |
12CW0067 | 1 | 1894-05-01 | 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 1,949 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 963 AF — 49% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,328 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 122 | 15.2 |
| 2012 | 1,396 | 7th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 100 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 1,327 | 6th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 94 | 7.9 |
| 2014 | 5,221 | 15th lowest of 15 · 268% of median | 85 | 67.9 |
| 2015 | 1,014 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 124 | 11.2 |
| 2016 | 1,278 | 5th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 69 | 25.6 |
| 2017 | 3,172 | 12th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 77 | 50.8 |
| 2018 | 654 | 1st lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 93 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 1,949 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 53 | 31.2 |
| 2020 | 1,154 | 4th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 80 | 13.6 |
| 2021 | 2,729 | 11th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 106 | 22.5 |
| 2022 | 2,102 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 66 | 24.8 |
| 2023 | 3,500 | 13th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 90 | 26.3 |
| 2024 | 4,093 | 14th lowest of 15 · 210% of median | 93 | 35.1 |
| 2025 | 963 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 76 | 18.9 |
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 | 5160 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 43% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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