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BEAR CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3000510 · 1 · ANIMAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:19 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1892-05-01 — 342nd most senior of the 2277 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: RUDY DITCH (1892-03-15). Immediately behind: AMBOLD DITCH NO 2 (1893-03-03).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15462.0 | 1892-05-01 | 1923-11-08 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRRECFISDOMSTKEVPOTH | A-23 |
| 50403.35793 | 1947-12-31 | 1988-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISSTK | |
| 50409.0 | 1988-01-06 | 1988-12-31 | 1.7 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISSTK | |
| 54177.0 | 1998-05-01 | 1998-12-31 | 0.0 | 2.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | |
| 55882.53996 | 1997-11-01 | 2003-12-31 | 2.15 | 0.0 | C | RECFISOTH |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 840 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 436 AF — 52% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 924 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 365 | 6.2 |
| 2012 | 840 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 366 | 6.0 |
| 2013 | 343 | 4th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 365 | 2.4 |
| 2014 | 993 | 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 352 | 4.9 |
| 2015 | 1,144 | 14th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 365 | 6.3 |
| 2016 | 1,136 | 13th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 366 | 5.7 |
| 2017 | 1,182 | 15th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 365 | 5.1 |
| 2018 | 113 | 1st lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 182 | 0.7 |
| 2019 | 1,056 | 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 220 | 6.2 |
| 2020 | 422 | 5th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 214 | 4.5 |
| 2021 | 129 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 159 | 0.9 |
| 2022 | 282 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 205 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 887 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 257 | 6.0 |
| 2024 | 728 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 366 | 3.4 |
| 2025 | 436 | 6th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 304 | 2.2 |
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