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BRAVO DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6400522 · 1 · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:22 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 1893-02-21 — 76th 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: MOIST WELL 5-45871 (1892-09-14). Immediately behind: RAMSEY DITCH (1894-08-23).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15758.0 | 1893-02-21 | 1897-05-29 | 40.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | |
| 16628.0 | 1895-07-11 | 1902-09-29 | 16.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 23172.20544 | 1906-04-01 | 1928-07-05 | 20.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 53558.0 | 1996-08-20 | 1996-12-31 | 46.4 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNAUGRCHWLD | |
| 56002.0 | 2003-04-30 | 2003-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMFIRSTKAUGRCH |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
7 court cases:
03CW0208, 96CW0657, 04CW0236, W8376, CA0944, 99CW0004, CA0304.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
03CW0208 | 1 | 2003-12-31 | O |
96CW0657 | 1 | 1996-12-31 | S |
04CW0236 | 2 | 1996-12-31 | S |
W8376 | 1 | 1976-12-31 | S |
CA0944 | 1 | 1928-07-05 | S |
99CW0004 | 1 | 1902-09-29 | O |
CA0304 | 1 | 1897-05-29 | O |
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 9,879 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 8,867 AF — 90% of that, and 6th 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 | 13,219 | 14th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 277 | 63.0 |
| 2011 | 9,897 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 226 | 82.0 |
| 2012 | 12,335 | 13th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 283 | 47.4 |
| 2013 | 11,491 | 11th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 227 | 50.4 |
| 2014 | 13,430 | 15th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 261 | 65.5 |
| 2015 | 7,777 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 200 | 63.4 |
| 2016 | 8,291 | 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 168 | 54.6 |
| 2017 | 10,436 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 237 | 50.2 |
| 2018 | 9,879 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 267 | 42.6 |
| 2019 | 8,401 | 5th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 244 | 62.8 |
| 2020 | 12,159 | 12th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 290 | 46.9 |
| 2021 | 9,761 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 241 | 38.8 |
| 2022 | 7,056 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 226 | 35.6 |
| 2023 | 7,010 | 1st lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 173 | 44.6 |
| 2024 | 8,867 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 222 | 41.7 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 23.1% of a median season / 0.0% dry-year.
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-298 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.023).
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 5 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 12908 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 81% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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