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JOHN LYONS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4400667 · 1 · BEAVER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:37 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 1892-09-01 — 205th 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: K DIAMOND DITCH (1892-05-14). Immediately behind: EGRY DITCH 2 ALT PT (1893-04-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19250.15585 | 1892-09-01 | 1902-09-18 | 0.34 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 70 |
| 20350.15585 | 1892-09-01 | 1905-09-26 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 70 |
| 20352.19478 | 1903-05-01 | 1905-09-26 | 1.96 | 0.0 | C | STOIRR | 109 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 76 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 635 AF — 836% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 102 | 10th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 57 | 2.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 42 | 0.3 |
| 2013 | 51 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 69 | 0.8 |
| 2014 | 53 | 6th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 53 | 0.6 |
| 2015 | 37 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 46 | 0.6 |
| 2016 | 73 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 37 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 76 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 43 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 37 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 33 | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 78 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 85 | 0.6 |
| 2020 | 144 | 12th lowest of 15 · 190% of median | 66 | 2.1 |
| 2021 | 21 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 38 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 242 | 14th lowest of 15 · 318% of median | 81 | 2.1 |
| 2023 | 118 | 11th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 41 | 1.5 |
| 2024 | 208 | 13th lowest of 15 · 274% of median | 61 | 2.1 |
| 2025 | 635 | 15th lowest of 15 · 836% of median | 72 | 6.9 |
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