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JOHN BROWN (VASQUEZ)
Structure dossier · WDID 1600580 · 1 · CUCHARAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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 1866-05-01 — 39th most senior of the 1044 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: WAYLAND PRIORITY #5 APD (1866-04-30). Immediately behind: FRANCISCO DAIGRE HUAJATO (1866-05-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5965.0 | 1866-05-01 | 1889-06-12 | 3.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 366 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 880 AF — 240% of that, and 15th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 204 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | — | 86 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 473 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | — | 134 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 77 | 1st lowest of 15 · 21% of median | — | 60 | 2.7 |
| 2014 | 366 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 99 | 3.3 |
| 2015 | 257 | 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | — | 79 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 334 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | — | 92 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 290 | 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | — | 95 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 183 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | — | 78 | 3.3 |
| 2019 | 753 | 13th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | — | 181 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 318 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | — | 112 | 3.3 |
| 2021 | 512 | 12th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | — | 117 | 3.3 |
| 2022 | 848 | 14th lowest of 15 · 232% of median | — | 169 | 3.3 |
| 2023 | 511 | 11th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | — | 99 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 445 | 9th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | — | 66 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 880 | 15th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | — | 136 | 3.5 |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.