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BROWN DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3900516 · 1 · MIDDLE RIFLE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:11 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 1942-09-23 — 279th most senior of the 1758 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: YOUKER DITCH (1942-09-22). Immediately behind: HARNESS WASTE WATER D (1942-09-24).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
33978.338681942-09-231952-09-05 1.660.0 CIRR 227

Recorded use (last 11 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 253 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1999, came in at 151 AF — 60% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 11 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1970 497 11th lowest of 11 · 196% of median 171 1.5
1971 327 9th lowest of 11 · 129% of median 172 1.0
1984 243 5th lowest of 11 · 96% of median 103 1.2
1985 253 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median 103 1.7
1986 282 7th lowest of 11 · 112% of median 111 1.8
1987 284 8th lowest of 11 · 112% of median 156 1.6
1988 170 4th lowest of 11 · 67% of median 63 1.5
1996 113 1st lowest of 11 · 45% of median 75 0.8
1997 113 1st lowest of 11 · 45% of median 77 0.8
1998 461 10th lowest of 11 · 182% of median 151 1.7
1999 151 3rd lowest of 11 · 60% of median 62 1.2

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