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BIJOU DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5800540 · 1 · MOODY CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 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 1893-05-20 — 577th 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: BEAVER CREEK DITCH #2 (1886-05-01). Immediately behind: HOMER BUTTRICKS DITCH (1894-10-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
26993.158461893-05-201924-04-07 1.920.0 CIRR A123
33782.293711930-06-011946-09-14 3.080.0 CIRR 334-A

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 254 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 431 AF — 170% of that, and 13th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 571 14th lowest of 15 · 225% of median 54 9.0
2012 207 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 44 2.5
2013 192 5th lowest of 15 · 76% of median 66 2.7
2014 150 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median 76 2.1
2015 93 2nd lowest of 15 · 37% of median 49 1.6
2016 349 12th lowest of 15 · 137% of median 59 3.5
2017 309 11th lowest of 15 · 122% of median 89 2.7
2018 263 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 99 6.0
2019 273 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median 64 4.3
2020 183 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median 55 5.1
2021 233 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 50 3.5
2022 72 1st lowest of 15 · 28% of median 32 1.8
2023 254 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 90 2.5
2024 839 15th lowest of 15 · 330% of median 94 4.8
2025 431 13th lowest of 15 · 170% of median 56 4.8

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.