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BIG BEAVER CREEK RESERVOIR
Structure dossier · WDID 4303633 · 3 · BIG BEAVER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 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.
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 1888-06-15 — 115th 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: RYE GRASS DITCH (1888-06-05). Immediately behind: BAWDEN DITCH (1888-06-18).
Decreed rights (7)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14046.0 | 1888-06-15 | 1890-10-22 | 23.5 | 0.0 | A | RECFISWLD | 104A |
| 14345.0 | 1889-04-10 | 1889-05-10 | 55.0 | 0.0 | A | RECFISWLD | 110 |
| 14431.0 | 1889-07-05 | 1889-05-10 | 16.8 | 0.0 | A | RECFISWLD | 111 |
| 32172.14796 | 1890-07-05 | 1942-05-26 | 12.2 | 0.0 | A | RECFISWLD | 353 |
| 32172.23155 | 1913-05-25 | 1942-05-26 | 160.4 | 0.0 | A | RECFISWLD | 448D, 448E |
| 41188.0 | 1962-10-08 | 1966-11-21 | 7657.86 | 0.0 | A | RECFIS | 726 |
| 46301.0 | 1976-10-07 | 1976-12-31 | 0.0 | 10000.0 | A | IRRMUNINDRECFISDOMAUG |
Recorded use (last 4 years on record)
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | — | no recorded volume | 1,548 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | — | no recorded volume | 973 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | — | no recorded volume | 805 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | — | no recorded volume | 8,035 | 0 | — |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.