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OXFORD DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700745 · 1 · BEAVER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:18 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 1900-09-20 — 267th 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: HAMMER DITCH (1900-09-20). Immediately behind: VAIL ASSOC HEADGATE A (1900-09-20).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21361.18525 | 1900-09-20 | 1909-01-12 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 273 |
| 30894.22935 | 1912-10-17 | 1936-10-03 | 3.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 417 |
| 38753.36675 | 1950-05-31 | 1958-07-23 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 531 |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 10 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1983, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 427 | 12th lowest of 12 · 4067% of median | 110 | 2.8 |
| 1952 | 333 | 10th lowest of 12 · 3171% of median | 99 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 21 | 7th lowest of 12 · 200% of median | 46 | 0.3 |
| 1955 | 53 | 8th lowest of 12 · 505% of median | 77 | 0.4 |
| 1956 | 370 | 11th lowest of 12 · 3524% of median | 143 | 1.9 |
| 1958 | 98 | 9th lowest of 12 · 933% of median | 137 | 0.9 |
| 1974 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
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