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BEARDSLEE DITCH NO1
Structure dossier · WDID 4400544 · 1 · PARASITE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:06 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 1895-07-28 — 210th most senior of the 3562 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: SAUNDERS DITCH (1894-05-04). Immediately behind: BEARDSLEE DITCH NO 2 AKA A FRAME (1895-08-01).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19250.16645 | 1895-07-28 | 1902-09-18 | 1.67 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 74 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 136 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 342 AF — 252% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 177 | 12th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 91 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 151 | 11th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 78 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 183 | 13th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 119 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 136 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 93 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 138 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 104 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 241 | 14th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 115 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 121 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 73 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 59 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 142 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 142 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 94 | 4th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 74 | 0.6 |
| 2018 | 102 | 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 115 | 0.4 |
| 2020 | 42 | 1st lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 14 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 56 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 72 | 0.4 |
| 2024 | 112 | 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 151 | 0.6 |
| 2025 | 342 | 15th lowest of 15 · 252% of median | 146 | 1.6 |
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