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ANDERSON BROS RES DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200507 · 1 · LEON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:28 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 1940-09-15 — 559th most senior of the 2166 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: MITCHELL RESERVOIR (1939-10-31). Immediately behind: ANDERSON BROS RES NO 1 (1940-09-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34419.3313 | 1940-09-15 | 1959-07-21 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA8303.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA8303 | 1 | 1959-07-21 | 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 173 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2018, came in at 137 AF — 79% of that, and 5th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 226 | 14th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | — | 102 | 1.9 |
| 1997 | 755 | 15th lowest of 15 · 436% of median | — | 107 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 166 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | — | 55 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 155 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | — | 53 | 1.5 |
| 2002 | 97 | 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | — | 63 | 1.5 |
| 2003 | 196 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | — | 34 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 183 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | — | 42 | 2.2 |
| 2006 | 202 | 13th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | — | 52 | 2.0 |
| 2007 | 201 | 12th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | — | 30 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 173 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 30 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 186 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | — | 48 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 81 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 81 | 22 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 50 | 1st lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 50 | 15 | 1.8 |
| 2017 | 94 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 94 | 21 | 2.5 |
| 2018 | 137 | 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 137 | 29 | 2.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-5 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.038).
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1039 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 19% of the irrigation seasons in 1992-2018 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.