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KING DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1000565 · 1 · LITTLE FOUNTAIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:09 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1885-06-16 — 99th most senior of the 2864 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: CRYSTAL FALLS DITCH (1885-04-02). Immediately behind: CLEESE SPRING NO 1 (1885-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12951.0 | 1885-06-16 | 1919-06-02 | 12.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 132 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA10146.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA10146 | 1 | 1919-06-02 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 451 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1987, came in at 1,452 AF — 322% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 451 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 5.0 |
| 1972 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 305 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 274 | 7th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 76 | 10.2 |
| 1976 | 229 | 6th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 20 | 10.5 |
| 1977 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 500 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 64 | 6.5 |
| 1980 | 143 | 5th lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 26 | 12.0 |
| 1981 | 805 | 10th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 63 | 12.7 |
| 1982 | 1,227 | 13th lowest of 15 · 272% of median | 64 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 1,261 | 14th lowest of 15 · 280% of median | 92 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 1,021 | 12th lowest of 15 · 226% of median | 113 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 924 | 11th lowest of 15 · 205% of median | 89 | 10.0 |
| 1986 | 138 | 4th lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 42 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 1,452 | 15th lowest of 15 · 322% of median | 104 | 10.0 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 0.0% of a median season / 0.0% dry-year.
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+71 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.033).
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3426 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 18% of the irrigation seasons in 1899-1987 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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