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ED BAER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300565 · 1 · RILAND CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:07 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 1924-05-01 — 305th most senior of the 1231 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: KING SPRING AND DITCH (1921-07-10). Immediately behind: CABIN CREEK DITCH (1924-09-29).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33023.27149 | 1924-05-01 | 1956-02-07 | 2.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 322 |
| 51347.0 | 1990-08-01 | 1990-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRFISOTH |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
97CW0141, 90CW0329, CA1123.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
97CW0141 | 1 | 1990-12-31 | S |
90CW0329 | 1 | 1990-12-31 | S |
CA1123 | 1 | 1956-02-07 | S |
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 149 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2020, came in at 98 AF — 66% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 123 | 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 63 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 146 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 58 | 1.5 |
| 2006 | 151 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 77 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 163 | 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 83 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 213 | 12th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 92 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 235 | 14th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 121 | 1.5 |
| 2010 | 194 | 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 78 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 227 | 13th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 84 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 103 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 64 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 149 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 202 | 0.7 |
| 2016 | 299 | 15th lowest of 15 · 201% of median | 173 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 108 | 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 78 | 0.8 |
| 2018 | 72 | 1st lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 149 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 147 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 97 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 98 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 129 | 0.8 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3371 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 35% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2020 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.