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PLEASANT VALLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6000736 · 1 · BIG BEAR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:56 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 1916-07-02 — 742nd most senior of the 2893 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: JOHN A ROSS DITCH NO 1 (1916-07-02). Immediately behind: SHENANDOAH DITCH (1916-07-02).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25826.24289 | 1916-07-02 | 1929-02-26 | 20.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRAUGCUR | 166, 187 |
Legal record & documents
26 decreed actions on record across
9 court cases:
99CW0122, 90CW0117, CA3785, 97CW0114, 21CW3075, 17CW3008, 11CW0048, 03CW0276, 00CW0166.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
99CW0122 | 1 | 1990-12-31 | S |
90CW0117 | 1 | 1990-12-31 | S |
CA3785 | 2 | 1929-02-26 | S |
97CW0114 | 2 | 1929-02-26 | S |
21CW3075 | 4 | 1929-02-26 | S |
17CW3008 | 4 | 1929-02-26 | S |
11CW0048 | 4 | 1929-02-26 | S |
03CW0276 | 6 | 1929-02-26 | S |
00CW0166 | 2 | 1929-02-26 | 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 1,231 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,029 AF — 84% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,003 | 15th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 120 | 9.4 |
| 2011 | 984 | 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 182 | 6.6 |
| 2012 | 1,489 | 12th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 168 | 11.6 |
| 2013 | 1,253 | 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 164 | 4.6 |
| 2014 | 934 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 146 | 6.0 |
| 2015 | 1,232 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 197 | 7.1 |
| 2016 | 1,468 | 11th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 171 | 9.7 |
| 2017 | 1,181 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 161 | 11.8 |
| 2018 | 603 | 1st lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 82 | 6.6 |
| 2019 | 1,555 | 13th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 143 | 10.8 |
| 2020 | 972 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 94 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 1,087 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 146 | 9.7 |
| 2022 | 1,646 | 14th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 155 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 1,231 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 130 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 1,029 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 141 | 6.1 |
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 7364 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 68% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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