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FORRESTER BROWN CREEK DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 4800534 · 1 · BROWN CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:09 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 1893-05-15 — 25th most senior of the 143 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: COMET DITCH (1892-12-07). Immediately behind: PACHE DITCH (1893-05-25).

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
15841.01893-05-151896-10-30 7.00.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 49 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 209 AF — 426% of that, and 15th lowest of the 15 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)
2008 19 2nd lowest of 15 · 39% of median 24 0.5
2009 49 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 56 0.8
2010 49 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 54 0.7
2011 41 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 43 0.7
2012 17 1st lowest of 15 · 35% of median 20 0.5
2013 50 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 53 0.7
2014 50 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 53 0.7
2015 50 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 53 0.7
2016 50 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 53 0.7
2017 43 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median 45 0.7
2018 23 3rd lowest of 15 · 47% of median 48 0.7
2019 166 14th lowest of 15 · 339% of median 39 12.0
2021 55 13th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 29 1.2
2022 42 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 52 1.2
2023 209 15th lowest of 15 · 426% of median 47 5.1

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