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BECKER NO 6 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000520 · 1 · TROUBLESOME CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 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 1890-03-20 — 39th most senior of the 360 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: TROUBLESOME DITCH (1889-09-21). Immediately behind: BIG SPRING DITCH (1890-05-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14689.0 | 1890-03-20 | 1906-08-11 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 39 |
Recorded use (last 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 10 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2007, came in at 22 AF — 210% of that, and 11th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 154 | 14th lowest of 14 · 1467% of median | 68 | 1.5 |
| 1995 | 8 | 5th lowest of 14 · 76% of median | 17 | 0.3 |
| 1996 | 6 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 57% of median | 31 | 0.1 |
| 1997 | 22 | 11th lowest of 14 · 210% of median | 25 | 0.5 |
| 1998 | 28 | 13th lowest of 14 · 267% of median | 29 | 0.5 |
| 1999 | 10 | 7th lowest of 14 · 95% of median | 19 | 0.3 |
| 2000 | 7 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 67% of median | 19 | 0.2 |
| 2001 | 15 | 10th lowest of 14 · 143% of median | 16 | 0.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | 1st lowest of 14 · 48% of median | 15 | 0.2 |
| 2003 | 9 | 6th lowest of 14 · 86% of median | 23 | 0.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 67% of median | 20 | 0.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | 8th lowest of 14 · 105% of median | 21 | 0.3 |
| 2006 | 13 | 9th lowest of 14 · 124% of median | 34 | 0.2 |
| 2007 | 22 | 11th lowest of 14 · 210% of median | 23 | 0.5 |
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