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C. R. BROWN AND MOFFAT COAL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800574 · 1 · HUNT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:36 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 1890-06-01 — 636th most senior of the 3097 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: PASTORIUS SPRING PIPE LINE (1941-09-10). Immediately behind: NORTH SIDE DITCH (1890-06-15).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33782.14762 | 1890-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 280 |
| 37807.0 | 1953-07-06 | 1957-06-22 | 1.77 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 427 |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA2902, 01CW0001, CA2475.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2902 | 1 | 1957-06-22 | S |
01CW0001 | 4 | 1957-06-22 | S |
CA2475 | 1 | 1946-09-14 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 484 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 638 AF — 132% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 316 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 115 | 4.1 |
| 2011 | 273 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 61 | 5.0 |
| 2012 | 438 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 59 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 434 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 57 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 484 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 66 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 515 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 65 | 4.5 |
| 2016 | 372 | 5th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 61 | 4.1 |
| 2018 | 353 | 4th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 87 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 634 | 12th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 90 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 623 | 11th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 95 | 6.0 |
| 2021 | 256 | 1st lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 76 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 594 | 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 102 | 3.6 |
| 2023 | 684 | 14th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 131 | 3.8 |
| 2024 | 839 | 15th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 108 | 6.8 |
| 2025 | 638 | 13th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 98 | 4.8 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+25 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.010).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 6035 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 36% of the irrigation seasons in 1947-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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