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Structure dossier · WDID 5800500 · 1 · BEAR RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:17 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 1889-05-07 — 93rd most senior of the 3097 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: LARSEN DITCH (1889-05-01). Immediately behind: FINGER ROCK DITCH (1889-05-08).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14372.0 | 1889-05-07 | 1892-09-22 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 75 |
| 15070.0 | 1891-04-05 | 1892-09-22 | 3.16 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 93 |
| 33782.23162 | 1913-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 6.16 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 310-A, 310 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA2475, 11/17/1937, 09/22/1892.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2475 | 2 | 1946-09-14 | S |
11/17/1937 | 1 | 1892-09-22 | O |
09/22/1892 | 1 | 1892-09-22 | 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 981 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,120 AF — 114% of that, and 11th 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 | 1,792 | 15th lowest of 15 · 183% of median | 127 | 19.2 |
| 2012 | 912 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 154 | 12.2 |
| 2013 | 711 | 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 62 | 12.1 |
| 2014 | 1,025 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 72 | 11.2 |
| 2015 | 682 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 55 | 12.0 |
| 2016 | 791 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 72 | 12.2 |
| 2017 | 665 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 63 | 10.2 |
| 2018 | 1,004 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 111 | 12.3 |
| 2019 | 981 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 99 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 1,512 | 14th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 86 | 15.1 |
| 2021 | 634 | 1st lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 55 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 860 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 71 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 1,308 | 12th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 75 | 12.2 |
| 2024 | 1,328 | 13th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 73 | 12.2 |
| 2025 | 1,120 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 69 | 13.5 |
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 (8/10 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 8611 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 44% of the irrigation seasons in 1933-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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