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BEAVER VALLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3100571 · 1 · BEAVER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:22 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
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 1900-06-12 — 349th 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: CLARA WOLF DITCH (1895-12-31). Immediately behind: IGNACIO DRAW DITCH (1903-11-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30843.18425 | 1900-06-12 | 1966-03-07 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 65-2 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 147 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1982, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 131 | 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 35 | 2.0 |
| 1969 | 182 | 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 56 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 196 | 12th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 62 | 5.0 |
| 1971 | 169 | 10th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 101 | 2.0 |
| 1972 | 110 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 36 | 2.0 |
| 1973 | 153 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 44 | 2.0 |
| 1974 | 147 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 76 | 2.0 |
| 1975 | 121 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 71 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 147 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 72 | 1.5 |
| 1977 | 200 | 13th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 62 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 55 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 61 | 1.0 |
| 1979 | 214 | 15th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 70 | 2.0 |
| 1980 | 208 | 14th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 57 | 2.0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
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