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BEECHER CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700509 · 1 · BRUSH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:42 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 1892-05-01 — 194th most senior of the 2162 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: EAST FROST DITCH (1891-05-31). Immediately behind: SALT CREEK DITCH (1892-06-20).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16251.15462 | 1892-05-01 | 1901-03-05 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 162 |
| 30894.26906 | 1923-09-01 | 1936-10-03 | 2.69 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 455V |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 200 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 448 AF — 224% of that, and 12th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 183 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 71 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 242 | 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 87 | 2.3 |
| 1991 | 222 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 89 | 2.0 |
| 1992 | 143 | 6th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 48 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 489 | 13th lowest of 15 · 244% of median | 130 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 200 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 102 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 250 | 11th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 127 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 109 | 5th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 68 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 509 | 14th lowest of 15 · 254% of median | 178 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 738 | 15th lowest of 15 · 369% of median | 304 | 6.5 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 448 | 12th lowest of 15 · 224% of median | 304 | 3.4 |
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