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BEAVER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5600524 · 1 · BEAVER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:21 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.
Will it be called out?
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 1893-04-01 — 30th most senior of the 909 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: RAFTO ELK RANCH DITCH NO.10 (1887-07-15). Immediately behind: POPPER DITCH NO 1 (1885-07-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15797.0 | 1893-04-01 | 1894-09-22 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 8 |
| 44559.29371 | 1930-06-01 | 1972-12-31 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRFIS |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 144 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 107 AF — 74% of that, and 7th 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 | 399 | 14th lowest of 15 · 277% of median | 82 | 3.5 |
| 2012 | 185 | 10th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 60 | 2.1 |
| 2013 | 256 | 13th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 141 | 1.8 |
| 2014 | 49 | 4th lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 23 | 1.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 10 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 20 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 17 | 0.7 |
| 2017 | 174 | 9th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 28 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 144 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 44 | 2.6 |
| 2019 | 227 | 12th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 45 | 3.5 |
| 2020 | 96 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 27 | 3.9 |
| 2021 | 46 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 26 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 214 | 11th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 49 | 3.3 |
| 2023 | 97 | 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 67 | 1.5 |
| 2024 | 514 | 15th lowest of 15 · 357% of median | 133 | 5.3 |
| 2025 | 107 | 7th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 55 | 1.8 |
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.