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BRUNER NO 3 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5200528 · 1 · BIG ALKALI CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:14 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 1886-05-20 — 53rd most senior of the 562 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: BRUNER NO 2 DITCH (1886-05-20). Immediately behind: MCPHEE DITCH (1890-07-01).

Decreed rights (2)

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
19790.132891886-05-201907-01-26 0.50.0 CIRR 51
30455.01933-05-201946-08-30 1.480.0 CIRR 183A

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 93 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 131 AF — 141% of that, and 10th 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)
2001 48 3rd lowest of 15 · 52% of median 17 1.5
2003 177 14th lowest of 15 · 190% of median 46 2.0
2006 134 11th lowest of 15 · 144% of median 69 1.4
2007 87 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 56 0.8
2008 72 4th lowest of 15 · 77% of median 44 1.2
2009 181 15th lowest of 15 · 195% of median 68 1.8
2010 93 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 55 1.0
2011 171 12th lowest of 15 · 184% of median 85 1.2
2012 11 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median 58 0.1
2013 173 13th lowest of 15 · 186% of median 89 1.1
2015 106 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 60 1.2
2016 74 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median 67 0.8
2017 84 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 77 0.7
2018 20 2nd lowest of 15 · 22% of median 18 0.6
2024 131 10th lowest of 15 · 141% of median 31 2.2

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