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BRIGHTON R O OUTFALL

Structure dossier · WDID 0202313 · OTHER · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record · probably BRIGHTON CITY OF, BRIGHTON VILLAGE LLC’s (matched on DWR’s contact or an EPA intake name; verify below)

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR structure ↗ Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR diversion records ↗ Source Our computation, scored against a reference · scored against DWR's call analysis, see /methods

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-09-15 04:36 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (956f090) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

In short

In a median year over its last 14 recorded years it diverts 408 acre-feet.

Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (2 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.

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Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.

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Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv

What is in the bundle
  • rights.csv — every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.
  • annual_use.csv — recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.
  • curtailment_now.csv — each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.
  • court_cases.csv — the cases attached to its rights.
  • co_parties.csv — the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.
  • call_climatology.csv — how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.
  • README.txt — provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.

Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (other). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.

Which of its rights are out of priority?

Not computable for this structure: no decreed right on file, so there is no priority to test.

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 408 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 492 AF — 121% of that, and 12th lowest of the 14 years with a recorded volume.

This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.

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 recordReleased (AF)Days recordedPeak (cfs)
2010 — no recorded volume 648 0 —
2012 39 2nd lowest of 14 · 10% of median 39 53 1.1
2013 488 11th lowest of 14 · 120% of median 488 352 1.7
2014 406 7th lowest of 14 · 100% of median 406 337 1.8
2015 377 6th lowest of 14 · 92% of median 377 342 1.5
2016 410 8th lowest of 14 · 100% of median 410 313 2.6
2017 41 3rd lowest of 14 · 10% of median 41 104 0.7
2018 441 10th lowest of 14 · 108% of median 441 360 1.9
2019 274 5th lowest of 14 · 67% of median 274 251 1.5
2020 100 4th lowest of 14 · 24% of median 100 78 3.2
2021 439 9th lowest of 14 · 108% of median 439 272 2.9
2022 494 13th lowest of 14 · 121% of median 494 291 3.7
2023 38 1st lowest of 14 · 9% of median 38 47 1.2
2024 534 14th lowest of 14 · 131% of median 534 305 6.0
2025 492 12th lowest of 14 · 121% of median 492 304 1.4

How good is our record of it?

Grade C (6/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.

The rubric, component by component
CheckStateDetail
identity complete name, type, and water source all on file
decreed rights absent no water rights cached for this WDID
diversion record present 3409 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against)
record continuity patchy 72% of the irrigation seasons in 2003-2025 carry measured days
published-record stability stable no upstream revisions recorded against this structure

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