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JUD BRUSH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6400519 · 1 · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 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 1895-03-11 — 88th most senior of the 2052 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: POWELL BLAIR DITCH (1895-02-19). Immediately behind: DESOTO BROS WELL 5-20451 (1895-03-11).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16506.0 | 1895-03-11 | 1902-09-29 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 223 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1975, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 238 | 7th lowest of 12 · 107% of median | 13 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 139 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 62% of median | 8 | 10.0 |
| 1954 | 278 | 9th lowest of 12 · 125% of median | 15 | 10.0 |
| 1957 | 278 | 9th lowest of 12 · 125% of median | 15 | 10.0 |
| 1958 | 208 | 6th lowest of 12 · 93% of median | 22 | 5.0 |
| 1961 | 555 | 12th lowest of 12 · 249% of median | 29 | 10.0 |
| 1964 | 125 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 56% of median | 8 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 428 | 11th lowest of 12 · 192% of median | 28 | 10.0 |
| 1968 | 252 | 8th lowest of 12 · 113% of median | 16 | 12.0 |
| 1972 | 139 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 62% of median | 23 | 5.0 |
| 1973 | 159 | 5th lowest of 12 · 71% of median | 27 | 10.0 |
| 1975 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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