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MORITZ BRANDENBURG
Structure dossier · WDID 1301123 · 1 · COTTONWOOD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:47 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1883-05-15 — 392nd 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: KELLING DITCH NO 6 (1883-05-15). Immediately behind: JOHN ERPS DITCH NO 2 (1883-05-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12188.0 | 1883-05-15 | 1896-03-12 | 0.72 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 353 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 18 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 53 AF — 294% of that, and 14th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 5 | 0.4 |
| 2001 | 4 | 4th lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 5 | 0.5 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 19 | 0.3 |
| 2004 | 19 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 40 | 0.5 |
| 2005 | 59 | 15th lowest of 15 · 328% of median | 58 | 0.7 |
| 2007 | 39 | 12th lowest of 15 · 217% of median | 62 | 0.4 |
| 2008 | 18 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 38 | 0.3 |
| 2009 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 9 | 0.2 |
| 2014 | 26 | 11th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 42 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 25 | 10th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 28 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 18 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 22 | 0.4 |
| 2021 | 50 | 13th lowest of 15 · 278% of median | 37 | 0.7 |
| 2023 | 17 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 29 | 0.3 |
| 2024 | 53 | 14th lowest of 15 · 294% of median | 46 | 0.7 |
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