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BERSHENYI SPRING & PL
Structure dossier · WDID 3800536 · 4 · FOURMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:23 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 1882-05-24 — 45th most senior of the 4788 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: ATKINSON DITCH (1882-05-24). Immediately behind: ZILM WELL NO 1 (1882-05-24).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11832.0 | 1882-05-24 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 33 |
| 36396.2275 | 1912-04-15 | 1952-10-24 | 0.015 | 0.0 | C | DOMOTH | 518 |
| 39193.0 | 1957-04-22 | 1958-06-20 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDDOMSTK | 715 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
17CW3130, CA4033, 93CW0051.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
17CW3130 | 1 | 1958-06-20 | S |
CA4033 | 1 | 1952-10-24 | S |
93CW0051 | 1 | 1889-05-11 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 4 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2018, came in at 4 AF — 100% of that, and 5th lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 2 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 50% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 14 | 11th lowest of 11 · 350% of median | 365 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 12 | 9th lowest of 11 · 300% of median | 366 | 0.0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 50% of median | 365 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | 7th lowest of 11 · 175% of median | 365 | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | 8th lowest of 11 · 200% of median | 365 | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | 9th lowest of 11 · 300% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 4 | 5th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 304 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 25% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 4 | 5th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 11 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2921 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 31% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-2018 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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