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COZY POINT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800615 · 1 · BRUSH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:11 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 1882-10-01 — 67th most senior of the 4788 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: VAN CLEVE NO 2 DITCH (1882-09-15). Immediately behind: BRUSH CREEK DITCH (1882-10-03).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11962.0 | 1882-10-01 | 1889-05-11 | 0.54 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 47 |
| 32907.31649 | 1936-08-26 | 1949-08-25 | 0.64 | 0.73 | C | IRR | 443 |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA3723, 89CW0247, CA0132.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3723 | 3 | 1949-08-25 | S |
89CW0247 | 2 | 1949-08-25 | O, S |
CA0132 | 1 | 1889-05-11 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 151 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2009, came in at 67 AF — 44% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 349 | 12th lowest of 15 · 231% of median | 89 | 2.0 |
| 1978 | 349 | 12th lowest of 15 · 231% of median | 89 | 2.0 |
| 1979 | 655 | 15th lowest of 15 · 434% of median | 165 | 2.0 |
| 1980 | 303 | 9th lowest of 15 · 201% of median | 153 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 117 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 60 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 119 | 7th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 303 | 9th lowest of 15 · 201% of median | 153 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 365 | 14th lowest of 15 · 242% of median | 184 | 1.0 |
| 1985 | 347 | 11th lowest of 15 · 230% of median | 175 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1987 | 31 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 32 | 0.5 |
| 1988 | 42 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 22 | 1.0 |
| 1989 | 151 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 154 | 0.5 |
| 1990 | 118 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 120 | 0.5 |
| 2009 | 67 | 4th lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 154 | 0.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-17 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.037).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1778 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 25% of the irrigation seasons in 1976-2009 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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