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BEAVER CREEK DITCH WEST
Structure dossier · WDID 6201250 · 1 · SOUTH BEAVER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:17 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 in line
Priority 1883-07-01 — 225th most senior of the 1980 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 EAST (1883-07-01). Immediately behind: ANTONIO FERRARO D NO 1 (1885-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27585.12235 | 1883-07-01 | 1941-04-21 | 3.86 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 192 |
| 27585.19811 | 1904-03-29 | 1941-04-21 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 246 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 168 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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 | 36 | 4th lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 33 | 0.6 |
| 2011 | 626 | 14th lowest of 15 · 373% of median | 59 | 6.5 |
| 2012 | 168 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 56 | 1.6 |
| 2013 | 526 | 13th lowest of 15 · 313% of median | 140 | 4.6 |
| 2014 | 963 | 15th lowest of 15 · 573% of median | 115 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 497 | 12th lowest of 15 · 296% of median | 57 | 6.7 |
| 2017 | 115 | 7th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 18 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 66 | 5th lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 90 | 0.4 |
| 2020 | 381 | 10th lowest of 15 · 227% of median | 99 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 230 | 9th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 55 | 3.3 |
| 2023 | 110 | 6th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 23 | 4.6 |
| 2024 | 477 | 11th lowest of 15 · 284% of median | 61 | 6.3 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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