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WOODY-BROWN DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 7201249 · 1 · PLATEAU CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1925-05-25 — 1039th 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: SCHORN RESERVOIR (1924-12-31). Immediately behind: OUZEL SPRING (1928-07-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
45290.275381925-05-251974-12-31 1.810.0 CIRRDOM

Recorded use (last 14 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 468 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 765 AF — 164% of that, and 12th lowest of the 14 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1994 288 5th lowest of 14 · 62% of median 180 0.8
1995 622 11th lowest of 14 · 133% of median 180 1.8
1996 197 4th lowest of 14 · 42% of median 178 0.6
1997 589 10th lowest of 14 · 126% of median 165 1.8
1998 1,053 14th lowest of 14 · 225% of median 191 2.8
1999 960 13th lowest of 14 · 205% of median 242 2.0
2000 484 8th lowest of 14 · 104% of median 123 2.0
2002 126 3rd lowest of 14 · 27% of median 244 0.8
2003 120 2nd lowest of 14 · 26% of median 183 0.5
2004 451 7th lowest of 14 · 96% of median 155 1.8
2005 109 1st lowest of 14 · 23% of median 184 0.3
2008 363 6th lowest of 14 · 78% of median 123 1.5
2013 549 9th lowest of 14 · 117% of median 154 1.8
2019 765 12th lowest of 14 · 164% of median 214 1.8

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