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L AND C DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500664 · 1 · BEAVER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:16 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1892-05-16 — 85th most senior of the 1378 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: BEAVER CR GRASS MESA D (1892-05-16). Immediately behind: COOLEY NO 3 DITCH (1890-03-25).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15477.0 | 1892-05-16 | 1893-04-08 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 112 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 32 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2009, came in at 32 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 321 | 12th lowest of 15 · 1003% of median | 29 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | 7th lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 2 | 8.5 |
| 1992 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 476 | 14th lowest of 15 · 1488% of median | 36 | 6.9 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 436 | 13th lowest of 15 · 1362% of median | 26 | 9.3 |
| 1996 | 132 | 10th lowest of 15 · 412% of median | 13 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 661 | 15th lowest of 15 · 2066% of median | 40 | 10.2 |
| 1998 | 140 | 11th lowest of 15 · 438% of median | 27 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 99 | 9th lowest of 15 · 309% of median | 6 | 10.0 |
| 2009 | 32 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 6 | 4.1 |
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