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BOWEN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700523 · 1 · ILLINOIS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1888-05-01 — 426th most senior of the 1262 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: HUNTER DITCH 1 (1886-10-01). Immediately behind: SHORT RUN DITCH (1889-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21366.14001 | 1888-05-01 | 1913-01-06 | 12.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 335 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 89 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 56 AF — 63% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 336 | 10th lowest of 15 · 378% of median | 37 | 9.6 |
| 2001 | 89 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 9 | 7.0 |
| 2003 | 212 | 9th lowest of 15 · 238% of median | 16 | 13.0 |
| 2005 | 444 | 11th lowest of 15 · 499% of median | 39 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 34 | 5th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 10 | 5.0 |
| 2007 | 80 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 13 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 536 | 12th lowest of 15 · 602% of median | 44 | 10.0 |
| 2009 | 575 | 13th lowest of 15 · 646% of median | 47 | 11.0 |
| 2010 | 631 | 15th lowest of 15 · 709% of median | 43 | 12.0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 620 | 14th lowest of 15 · 697% of median | 48 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 56 | 6th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 8 | 4.0 |
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