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Structure dossier · WDID 1301100 · 1 · BRUSH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:31 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 1894-05-01 — 478th most senior of the 1017 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: DILLEY NO 4 (1910-01-01). Immediately behind: DEGREE WELL NO 1 (1910-12-31).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21948.16192 | 1894-05-01 | 1910-04-14 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 119 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA3212.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3212 | 1 | 1910-04-14 | 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 83 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 4 AF — 5% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 214 | 15th lowest of 15 · 258% of median | 109 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 143 | 13th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 73 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 83 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 43 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 85 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 44 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 118 | 12th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 64 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 165 | 14th lowest of 15 · 199% of median | 60 | 1.5 |
| 2005 | 99 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 51 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 36 | 4th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 20 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 10 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 8 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 65 | 7th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 34 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 46 | 6th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 25 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 107 | 11th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 29 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 40 | 5th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 24 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 4 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 3 | 1.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-5 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.048).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 814 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 11% of the irrigation seasons in 1987-2021 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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