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PHARO BAUER NO 1 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3600777 · 1 · BLUE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:51 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.
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 1881-04-30 — 39th 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 BAUER DITCH (1881-04-30). Immediately behind: BRUSH CREEK DITCH (1882-06-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11443.0 | 1881-04-30 | 1910-03-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISWLD | 8 |
| 13650.0 | 1887-05-16 | 1910-03-02 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISWLD | 47, 68 |
| 19570.0 | 1903-08-01 | 1910-03-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISWLD | 148 |
| 30254.0 | 1932-10-31 | 1937-10-26 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISWLD | 246 |
| 31697.0 | 1936-10-13 | 1937-10-26 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISWLD | 253 |
| 53325.52868 | 1994-09-30 | 1994-12-31 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISWLD |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 5,449 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 5,449 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,522 | 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 298 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 5,176 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 335 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 5,880 | 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 366 | 15.9 |
| 2013 | 4,179 | 4th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 225 | 17.8 |
| 2014 | 7,701 | 14th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 365 | 18.0 |
| 2015 | 7,327 | 13th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 365 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 9,484 | 15th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 358 | 28.0 |
| 2017 | 6,902 | 12th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 365 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 4,381 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 365 | 16.0 |
| 2019 | 5,845 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 365 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 5,848 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 286 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 694 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 85 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 444 | 1st lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 29 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 488 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 46 | 8.0 |
| 2024 | 5,449 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 253 | 17.0 |
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