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PEABODY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700826 · 1 · WILLOW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:11 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 1885-06-15 — 64th 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: LOWLAND DITCH (1885-06-15). Immediately behind: ADDISON DITCH (1885-06-15).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12950.0 | 1885-06-15 | 1892-09-19 | 7.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 42(40) |
| 16192.0 | 1894-05-01 | 1902-04-23 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 266(255) |
| 36767.0 | 1950-08-31 | 1958-01-10 | 35.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 772 |
| 50769.3772 | 1953-04-10 | 1989-12-31 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | STK |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
89CW0131, CA0511, CA1519, CA0922.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
89CW0131 | 1 | 1989-12-31 | S |
CA0511 | 1 | 1958-01-10 | S |
CA1519 | 1 | 1902-04-23 | O |
CA0922 | 1 | 1892-09-19 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 914 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 427 AF — 47% of that, and 1st 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 | 2,193 | 15th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | 74 | 27.2 |
| 2012 | 618 | 5th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 95 | 8.1 |
| 2013 | 2,144 | 13th lowest of 15 · 235% of median | 70 | 20.0 |
| 2014 | 2,178 | 14th lowest of 15 · 238% of median | 75 | 30.3 |
| 2015 | 1,109 | 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 91 | 13.6 |
| 2016 | 1,924 | 12th lowest of 15 · 210% of median | 43 | 41.9 |
| 2017 | 463 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 83 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 749 | 7th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 88 | 6.1 |
| 2019 | 914 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 64 | 18.6 |
| 2020 | 723 | 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 76 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 597 | 4th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 57 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 559 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 28 | 12.6 |
| 2023 | 1,057 | 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 94 | 13.6 |
| 2024 | 1,455 | 11th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 93 | 13.6 |
| 2025 | 427 | 1st lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 50 | 4.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-68 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.038).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3950 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 25% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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