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KINNEAR DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 0600614 · DITCH · COAL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:36 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (5cd37f7) — 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
● Fully called out — call at RURAL DITCH (BOULDER CREEK, priority 1862-05-09).
● Fully called out — call at JONES DONNELLY DITCH (SOUTH BOULDER CREEK, priority 1860-04-30).
● Fully called out — call at HOWARD DITCH (SOUTH BOULDER CREEK, priority 1860-04-01).
● Junior rights called out — call at LOWER LATHAM DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1885-11-20).
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 1872-05-20 — 93rd most senior of the 1867 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: HENRY WANEKA RES 1 (1872-04-15). Immediately behind: KINNEAR DITCH (1872-05-20).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8176.0 | 1872-05-20 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNALL | |
| 11841.07445 | 1870-05-20 | 1900-12-19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR | |
| 19055.0 | 1902-03-04 | 1936-05-13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNALL | |
| 20890.19055 | 1902-03-04 | 1926-06-21 | 781.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR |
Legal record & documents
14 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
00CW0262, CA6672, 90CW0211, 89CW0132, 86CW0397, 02CW0266.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
00CW0262 | 4 | 1936-05-13 | O, S |
CA6672 | 1 | 1926-06-21 | S |
90CW0211 | 2 | 1926-06-21 | S |
89CW0132 | 3 | 1926-06-21 | S |
86CW0397 | 2 | 1926-06-21 | S |
02CW0266 | 2 | 1926-06-21 | 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 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 418 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1989, came in at 548 AF — 131% of that, and 9th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 20 | 1st lowest of 14 · 5% of median | 2 | 10.0 |
| 1959 | 367 | 7th lowest of 14 · 88% of median | 14 | 20.0 |
| 1960 | 742 | 10th lowest of 14 · 177% of median | 31 | 30.0 |
| 1967 | 307 | 6th lowest of 14 · 73% of median | 17 | 18.0 |
| 1976 | 470 | 8th lowest of 14 · 112% of median | 89 | 12.0 |
| 1977 | 214 | 4th lowest of 14 · 51% of median | 36 | 18.0 |
| 1978 | 272 | 5th lowest of 14 · 65% of median | 42 | 11.0 |
| 1979 | 1,329 | 14th lowest of 14 · 318% of median | 73 | 26.0 |
| 1980 | 1,192 | 13th lowest of 14 · 285% of median | 121 | 30.0 |
| 1985 | 125 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 30% of median | 33 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 994 | 12th lowest of 14 · 238% of median | 104 | 27.0 |
| 1987 | 145 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 35% of median | 59 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 822 | 11th lowest of 14 · 196% of median | 100 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 548 | 9th lowest of 14 · 131% of median | 93 | 4.9 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 61.2% of a median season / 13.6% dry-year.
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 14 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 814 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 11% of the irrigation seasons in 1955-1989 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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