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SIG BROWN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2900713 · 1 · SHEEP CABIN CREEK · 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 (a1c9146) — 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 1917-06-01 — 190th most senior of the 853 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: PORCUPINE DITCH (1914-08-04). Immediately behind: BISHOP DITCH (1919-12-31).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28645.24623 | 1917-06-01 | 1962-04-19 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRCOMRECFISFIRDOMSTKAUG | #277 |
| 57708.0 | 2007-12-31 | 2007-12-31 | 0.0 | 3.0 | C | STO | |
| 60560.0 | 2015-10-22 | 2007-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.5 | C | STO |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 58 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 17 AF — 29% 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 | 124 | 11th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 94 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 30 | 5th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 35 | 0.8 |
| 2013 | 2 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 15 | 0.4 |
| 2014 | 235 | 14th lowest of 15 · 405% of median | 90 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 12 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 146 | 12th lowest of 15 · 252% of median | 113 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 36 | 6th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 55 | 0.7 |
| 2018 | 43 | 7th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 59 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 90 | 9th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 82 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 58 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 93 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 159 | 13th lowest of 15 · 274% of median | 41 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 268 | 15th lowest of 15 · 462% of median | 61 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 115 | 10th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 181 | 0.3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 17 | 4th lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 33 | 0.3 |
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