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LONG BRANCH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800625 · 1 · LONG BRANCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:42 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 1907-07-01 — 672nd most senior of the 1505 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: CLOVIS METROZ NO1 ALT 4 (1906-06-06). Immediately behind: LONG BRNCH/WEDDLE HGT1-4 (1907-07-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28311.21 | 1907-07-01 | 1943-04-19 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 290 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 540 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2000, came in at 105 AF — 19% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 976 | 12th lowest of 15 · 181% of median | 73 | 8.0 |
| 1985 | 425 | 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 48 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 906 | 11th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 98 | 7.0 |
| 1987 | 601 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 109 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 573 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 89 | 4.1 |
| 1989 | 540 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 141 | 2.0 |
| 1990 | 175 | 5th lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 93 | 1.2 |
| 1991 | 127 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 67 | 1.2 |
| 1992 | 139 | 4th lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 45 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 475 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 51 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 21 | 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 15 | 1.2 |
| 1995 | 1,412 | 15th lowest of 15 · 262% of median | 66 | 12.0 |
| 1996 | 1,016 | 13th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 65 | 8.0 |
| 1997 | 1,031 | 14th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 66 | 8.0 |
| 2000 | 105 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 62 | 2.0 |
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