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KINNEAR DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0600913 · DITCH · COAL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (96d5528) — 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: no administrative call record for this basin.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1872-05-20 — 94th 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: KINNEAR DITCH NO 2 (1872-05-20). Immediately behind: 0605865 (1873-06-01).
On COAL CREEK at river mile -3.8, it is 2nd of 29 down the reach. Immediately upstream: LAST CHANCE DITCH. Immediately downstream: MCKAY DITCH.
Position on the modelled network, not a claim about whose water this is — a stream carries water from many rights at once, and diverted water returns to it.
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 | 26.47 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR | |
| 11841.07184 | 1869-09-01 | 1900-12-19 | 40.47 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNALL | |
| 20890.19055 | 1902-03-04 | 1926-06-21 | 789.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNALL | |
| 29219.0 | 1929-12-31 | 1953-09-28 | 789.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 4 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 537 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2013, came in at 1,053 AF — 196% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 39 | 1st lowest of 4 · 7% of median | 58 | 0.6 |
| 2011 | 635 | 3rd lowest of 4 · 118% of median | 174 | 20.1 |
| 2012 | 439 | 2nd lowest of 4 · 82% of median | 199 | 5.5 |
| 2013 | 1,053 | 4th lowest of 4 · 196% of median | 162 | 32.8 |
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