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KOUNTZ DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0801226 · DITCH · WEST PLUM CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 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.
Current administration
● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (23 active call(s) checked).
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1867-06-30 — 218th 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: 0801412 (1867-06-15). Immediately behind: 0801497 (1867-06-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6390.0 | 1867-06-30 | 1883-12-10 | 2.52 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 199 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 517 AF — 260% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 51 | 1st lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 108 | 0.6 |
| 2012 | 175 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 87 | 2.1 |
| 2013 | 98 | 4th lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 47 | 2.2 |
| 2014 | 79 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 53 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 403 | 12th lowest of 15 · 202% of median | 142 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 559 | 14th lowest of 15 · 281% of median | 138 | 5.2 |
| 2017 | 304 | 10th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 158 | 3.2 |
| 2018 | 68 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 93 | 0.7 |
| 2019 | 273 | 9th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 106 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 130 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 92 | 1.9 |
| 2021 | 199 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 125 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 182 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 196 | 1.7 |
| 2023 | 599 | 15th lowest of 15 · 301% of median | 222 | 4.6 |
| 2024 | 385 | 11th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 120 | 3.7 |
| 2025 | 517 | 13th lowest of 15 · 260% of median | 233 | 7.5 |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.