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KEN MITCHELL LAKES GRAVITY INLET
Structure dossier · WDID 0200509 · DITCH · 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 (0576005) — 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.
Current administration
● Junior rights called out — call at LITTLETON BOAT CHUTE NO 10 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1994-12-02).
● Fully called out — call at CANAL 3 DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1870-04-01).
● Fully called out — call at BIG T PLATTE R DITCH (BIG THOMPSON RIVER, priority 1865-11-18).
● Fully called out — call at B H EATON DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1864-06-09).
● Fully called out — call at LOWER LATHAM DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1877-11-14).
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 1992-02-28 — 10725th most senior of the 21881 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: 2305768 (1992-02-13). Immediately behind: 0200930 (1992-02-28).
Decreed rights (9)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51923.0 | 1992-02-28 | 1992-12-31 | 0.0 | 300.0 | C | STO | |
| 54161.0 | 1998-04-15 | 1998-12-31 | 0.0 | 300.0 | C | IRRCOMINDAUGOTH | |
| 55091.0 | 2000-10-31 | 2000-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | ALL | |
| 56151.0 | 2003-09-26 | 2003-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 56445.0 | 2004-07-16 | 2004-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 57856.0 | 2008-05-27 | 2008-12-31 | 0.0 | 300.0 | C | MUN | |
| 58132.0 | 2009-02-27 | 2009-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 58366.0 | 2009-10-19 | 2004-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 61695.0 | 2018-11-30 | 2018-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN |
Recorded use (last 4 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 282 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 4 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1,898 | 4th lowest of 4 · 673% of median | 24 | 93.0 |
| 2020 | 564 | 3rd lowest of 4 · 200% of median | 5 | 85.4 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 4 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 4 · 0% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
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