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BRIGGS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700528 · 1 · LONE PINE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:06 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.
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 1890-06-15 — 231st most senior of the 1262 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: CLAYTON DITCH (1890-06-08). Immediately behind: BUCKEYE DITCH (1890-09-30).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14776.0 | 1890-06-15 | 1902-04-23 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 114 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 605 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 245 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 36 | 4.5 |
| 2012 | 763 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 181 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 340 | 5th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 60 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 605 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 62 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 843 | 12th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 89 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 288 | 4th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 30 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 884 | 13th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 89 | 5.3 |
| 2018 | 490 | 7th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 64 | 5.0 |
| 2019 | 664 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 69 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 1,435 | 14th lowest of 15 · 237% of median | 142 | 5.1 |
| 2021 | 361 | 6th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 27 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 6,313 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1044% of median | 77 | 64.0 |
| 2023 | 681 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 62 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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