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JIM BEAM DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3400537 · 1 · CHICKEN CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:14 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — 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 1950-06-01 — 383rd most senior of the 495 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: SMOUSE SPRING (1925-06-01). Immediately behind: PARK ENTRANCE SPRING (1963-12-23).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
41353.366761950-06-011970-12-31 1.00.0 CIRRDOM

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 62 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2004, came in at 53 AF — 86% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1988 59 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 70 0.5
1989 62 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 125 0.3
1990 69 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 87 0.5
1991 40 3rd lowest of 15 · 64% of median 79 0.3
1992 60 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 84 0.6
1993 71 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 86 0.6
1994 37 2nd lowest of 15 · 60% of median 62 0.4
1995 110 15th lowest of 15 · 177% of median 128 0.5
1996 76 11th lowest of 15 · 123% of median 91 0.6
1997 86 13th lowest of 15 · 139% of median 82 0.7
1998 85 12th lowest of 15 · 137% of median 101 0.5
1999 55 5th lowest of 15 · 89% of median 105 0.4
2000 93 14th lowest of 15 · 150% of median 127 0.5
2001 16 1st lowest of 15 · 26% of median 17 0.5
2004 53 4th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 114 0.3

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