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BAILEY CANON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3100548 · 1 · BEAVER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:22 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 in line
Priority 1891-05-01 — 319th most senior of the 1037 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: ROBERT MORRISON DITCH (1890-10-01). Immediately behind: DUNHAM IRRIGATION DITCH (1894-06-06).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15096.0 | 1891-05-01 | 1934-06-12 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | Bv-5 |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 55 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1981, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 131 | 11th lowest of 12 · 238% of median | 51 | 2.0 |
| 1952 | 50 | 6th lowest of 12 · 91% of median | 44 | 1.0 |
| 1954 | 60 | 7th lowest of 12 · 109% of median | 37 | 2.0 |
| 1955 | 73 | 10th lowest of 12 · 133% of median | 27 | 2.0 |
| 1956 | 10 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 18% of median | 16 | 0.5 |
| 1968 | 37 | 5th lowest of 12 · 67% of median | 38 | 0.5 |
| 1969 | 66 | 8th lowest of 12 · 120% of median | 76 | 0.5 |
| 1971 | 137 | 12th lowest of 12 · 249% of median | 77 | 1.0 |
| 1975 | 69 | 9th lowest of 12 · 126% of median | 31 | 2.0 |
| 1976 | 11 | 4th lowest of 12 · 20% of median | 59 | 0.1 |
| 1978 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 18 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
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