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BROOKSIDE DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 0700720 · DITCH · LENA GULCH · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:23 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (4ab2507) — 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.

Current administration

● Fully called out — call at SWADLEY LONGAN DITCH (RALSTON CREEK, priority 1861-04-09).

● Fully called out — call at CLEAR CR PLATTE RIVER D (CLEAR CREEK, priority 1861-11-01).

● Fully called out — call at FARMERS INDEPENDENT DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1865-11-20).

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 1888-07-07 — 886th most senior of the 1815 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: 0701192 (1887-12-31). Immediately behind: 0701193 (1890-12-31).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
44559.140681888-07-071972-12-31 5.00.0 CIRRDOM

Recorded use (last 14 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 66 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 51 AF — 77% of that, and 5th lowest of the 14 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)
1978 74 9th lowest of 14 · 112% of median 16 2.5
1979 144 11th lowest of 14 · 218% of median 48 2.0
1980 95 10th lowest of 14 · 144% of median 31 2.0
1981 20 3rd lowest of 14 · 30% of median 6 2.0
1982 30 4th lowest of 14 · 46% of median 17 1.0
1984 172 13th lowest of 14 · 261% of median 110 1.9
1985 211 14th lowest of 14 · 320% of median 76 4.0
1986 0 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median 2 0.0
1987 0 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median 2 0.0
1991 149 12th lowest of 14 · 226% of median 26 3.0
2017 62 7th lowest of 14 · 94% of median 34 2.8
2018 60 6th lowest of 14 · 91% of median 26 2.0
2019 70 8th lowest of 14 · 106% of median 29 2.3
2021 51 5th lowest of 14 · 77% of median 25 2.0

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