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LITTLE BEAR DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4400688 · 1 · LITTLE BEAR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:29 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 1887-10-10 — 44th 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: HARPER DITCH 2 (1887-08-11). Immediately behind: YAMPA VAL STOCK BR CO D (1887-10-22).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13797.0 | 1887-10-10 | 1892-09-22 | 11.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 19 |
| 36295.33566 | 1941-11-25 | 1960-09-01 | 11.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 51 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,351 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,343 AF — 99% of that, and 7th 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 | 1,266 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 99 | 13.3 |
| 2012 | 1,665 | 12th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 181 | 14.9 |
| 2013 | 1,351 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 139 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 1,541 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 117 | 14.2 |
| 2015 | 1,353 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 75 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 1,174 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 121 | 12.2 |
| 2017 | 860 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 115 | 16.0 |
| 2018 | 1,186 | 4th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 99 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 72 | 1st lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 44 | 0.9 |
| 2020 | 1,233 | 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 153 | 12.3 |
| 2021 | 1,511 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 180 | 20.9 |
| 2022 | 1,761 | 13th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 145 | 20.9 |
| 2023 | 2,954 | 15th lowest of 15 · 219% of median | 111 | 16.9 |
| 2024 | 2,875 | 14th lowest of 15 · 213% of median | 157 | 18.9 |
| 2025 | 1,343 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 148 | 15.3 |
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