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UPPER WIESE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3801063 · 1 · BRUSH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:48 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 1909-06-01 — 460th 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: TEMPEST SPRING (1928-02-07). Immediately behind: VERNON WELL (1928-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28609.21701 | 1909-06-01 | 1928-10-29 | 0.46 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 251 |
| 32907.31655 | 1936-09-01 | 1949-08-25 | 1.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 462 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA3723, CA2689.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3723 | 1 | 1949-08-25 | S |
CA2689 | 1 | 1928-10-29 | S |
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 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 91 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1987, came in at 114 AF — 125% of that, and 8th lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 294 | 11th lowest of 11 · 323% of median | 149 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 163 | 10th lowest of 11 · 179% of median | 165 | 0.5 |
| 1978 | 87 | 5th lowest of 11 · 96% of median | 89 | 0.5 |
| 1979 | 72 | 4th lowest of 11 · 79% of median | 74 | 0.5 |
| 1981 | 60 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 66% of median | 62 | 0.5 |
| 1982 | 60 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 66% of median | 61 | 0.5 |
| 1983 | 91 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 93 | 0.5 |
| 1984 | 108 | 7th lowest of 11 · 119% of median | 110 | 0.5 |
| 1985 | 119 | 9th lowest of 11 · 131% of median | 121 | 0.5 |
| 1986 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1987 | 114 | 8th lowest of 11 · 125% of median | 73 | 1.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 11 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 998 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 38% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-1987 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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