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BRAUN BROS D 1
Structure dossier · WDID 2600506 · 1 · SAGUACHE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:49 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 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 1871-04-20 — 38th most senior of the 1548 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: WARD HIGHLINE D-ALT (1871-04-15). Immediately behind: MOUNTFIELD D (1871-04-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7780.0 | 1871-04-20 | 1889-11-23 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 19 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 883 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 569 AF — 64% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 561 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 182 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 328 | 1st lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 120 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 579 | 5th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 154 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 1,459 | 13th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 297 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 812 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 149 | 6.8 |
| 2016 | 2,074 | 15th lowest of 15 · 235% of median | 309 | 6.7 |
| 2017 | 1,493 | 14th lowest of 15 · 169% of median | 297 | 6.9 |
| 2018 | 541 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 97 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 1,203 | 11th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 228 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 883 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 201 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 1,242 | 12th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 283 | 3.0 |
| 2022 | 1,146 | 10th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 276 | 4.2 |
| 2023 | 614 | 6th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 191 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 981 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 298 | 3.0 |
| 2025 | 569 | 4th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 290 | 7.3 |
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