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HAY BRETHERTON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4300681 · 1 · WHITE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:49 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.
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 1889-03-27 — 678th most senior of the 3293 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: HOBACK & REDPATH DITCH (1895-10-13). Immediately behind: JAMES GONTERMAN DITCH (1903-08-19).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22163.14331 | 1889-03-27 | 1910-09-09 | 8.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 178 |
| 32172.1467 | 1890-03-01 | 1942-05-26 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 342 |
| 37376.0 | 1952-05-01 | 1958-11-26 | 7.1 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 559 |
| 39202.0 | 1957-05-01 | 1958-11-26 | 0.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 596 |
| 54187.0 | 1998-05-11 | 1998-12-31 | 0.95 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 4,477 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 2,884 AF — 64% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 3,444 | 4th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 165 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 4,637 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 153 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 4,523 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 159 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 4,477 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 151 | 26.0 |
| 2012 | 5,097 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 145 | 26.0 |
| 2013 | 5,541 | 12th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 231 | 24.2 |
| 2014 | 4,410 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 206 | 23.2 |
| 2015 | 2,301 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 53 | 25.0 |
| 2016 | 4,127 | 5th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 159 | 22.0 |
| 2017 | 612 | 1st lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 46 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 7,440 | 15th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 184 | 29.4 |
| 2022 | 7,072 | 14th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 191 | 37.0 |
| 2023 | 6,347 | 13th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 220 | 27.2 |
| 2024 | 4,188 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 213 | 24.2 |
| 2025 | 2,884 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 132 | 20.8 |
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