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WEST FORK BRUSH CR PL
Structure dossier · WDID 3801393 · 7 · BRUSH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:22 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 1882-05-16 — 43rd 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: CARROLL DITCH (1882-05-16). Immediately behind: ATKINSON DITCH (1882-05-24).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11824.0 | 1882-05-16 | 1889-05-11 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUN | 31 |
| 12158.0 | 1883-04-15 | 1889-05-11 | 1.7 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUN | 59 |
| 12331.0 | 1883-10-05 | 1889-05-11 | 0.9 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUN | 77 |
| 42305.0 | 1965-10-29 | 1971-11-05 | 6.9 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDRECDOM | 818 |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA5884, 90CW0122, W2903.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA5884 | 2 | 1971-11-05 | S |
90CW0122 | 1 | 1971-11-05 | S |
W2903 | 3 | 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 15 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 958 | 14th lowest of 15 · 6387% of median | 365 | 2.9 |
| 2011 | 963 | 15th lowest of 15 · 6420% of median | 365 | 3.5 |
| 2012 | 668 | 13th lowest of 15 · 4453% of median | 366 | 1.8 |
| 2013 | 39 | 10th lowest of 15 · 260% of median | 365 | 0.2 |
| 2014 | 41 | 11th lowest of 15 · 273% of median | 365 | 0.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | 6th lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 86 | 0.2 |
| 2016 | 8 | 7th lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 61 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 5th lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 120 | 0.1 |
| 2018 | 62 | 12th lowest of 15 · 413% of median | 304 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 15 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 0.4 |
| 2021 | 17 | 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 365 | 0.5 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 305 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-8 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.001).
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 6840 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 2001-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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