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BIG BEAVER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4300539 · 1 · BIG BEAVER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1887-04-05 — 75th most senior of the 3293 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: WALLACE DITCH HG ALT 2 (1887-04-03). Immediately behind: D D TAYLOR DITCH (1887-04-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13609.0 | 1887-04-05 | 1890-10-22 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISFIRDOMSTKAUG | 64A |
| 32172.23155 | 1913-05-25 | 1942-05-26 | 3.22 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISFIRDOMSTKAUG | 448F |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 322 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 251 AF — 78% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 773 | 15th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | 121 | 5.2 |
| 2012 | 395 | 9th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 164 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 561 | 11th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 147 | 3.6 |
| 2014 | 620 | 13th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 100 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 208 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 101 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 226 | 5th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 125 | 1.7 |
| 2017 | 93 | 1st lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 136 | 0.6 |
| 2018 | 160 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 90 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 322 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 97 | 1.7 |
| 2020 | 565 | 12th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 119 | 2.7 |
| 2021 | 224 | 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 101 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 306 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 104 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 772 | 14th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | 155 | 2.8 |
| 2024 | 497 | 10th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 157 | 1.9 |
| 2025 | 251 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 87 | 1.5 |
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