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PHARO BAUER DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3600776 · 1 · BLUE RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:38 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.

Which of its rights get called out?

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 1881-04-30 — 38th most senior of the 1247 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: PHARO DITCH (1881-04-30). Immediately behind: PHARO BAUER NO 1 DITCH (1881-04-30).

Decreed rights (6)

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
11443.01881-04-301910-03-02 8.00.0 CIRRRECFISWLD 8
13650.01887-05-161910-03-02 0.00.0 CIRRRECFISWLD 47, 68
19570.01903-08-011910-03-02 1.250.0 CIRRRECFISWLD 148
30254.01932-10-311937-10-26 0.00.0 CIRRRECFISWLD 246
31697.01936-10-131937-10-26 0.00.0 CIRRRECFISWLD 253
53325.528681994-09-301994-12-31 30.00.0 CIRRRECFISWLD

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 20,167 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 20,167 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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)
2010 15,952 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median 299 39.2
2011 18,244 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 349 35.5
2012 16,090 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median 337 39.2
2013 15,446 2nd lowest of 15 · 77% of median 329 39.2
2014 18,137 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 287 51.5
2015 23,261 15th lowest of 15 · 115% of median 365 38.8
2016 21,849 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median 366 39.2
2017 22,631 13th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 365 39.2
2018 21,347 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 365 37.4
2019 22,759 14th lowest of 15 · 113% of median 365 38.2
2020 22,208 12th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 366 38.2
2021 20,880 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 365 39.0
2022 17,059 5th lowest of 15 · 85% of median 304 39.2
2023 6,361 1st lowest of 15 · 32% of median 215 30.0
2024 20,167 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 305 39.2

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.