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BROWN NO 1 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200550 · 1 · BRUSH CREEK · 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 (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 1928-05-15 — 468th 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: FRED DECAMP NO 1 DITCH (1927-04-07). Immediately behind: VAN DEN HEUVEL DITCH (1929-05-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30895.28624 | 1928-05-15 | 1941-07-25 | 0.78 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 51 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2016, came in at 16 AF — 31% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 71 | 12th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 25 | 1.5 |
| 1999 | 60 | 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 21 | 1.5 |
| 2000 | 12 | 1st lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 7 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 21 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 8 | 1.5 |
| 2003 | 62 | 11th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 22 | 1.5 |
| 2004 | 33 | 4th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 12 | 1.5 |
| 2005 | 56 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 29 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 40 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 17 | 1.2 |
| 2007 | 80 | 14th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 28 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 80 | 14th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 28 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 51 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 18 | 1.5 |
| 2010 | 40 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 21 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 74 | 13th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 26 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 51 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 25 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 16 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 9 | 1.0 |
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