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KRAFT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1100530 · 1 · ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:50 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 1872-05-01 — 84th most senior of the 1489 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: HUEY DITCH APOD NO 3 (1872-04-30). Immediately behind: WHITE DITCH NO 3 (1872-05-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8157.0 | 1872-05-01 | 1903-01-28 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 33950.17897 | 1898-12-31 | 1969-07-09 | 3.7 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | A42 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA5141, CA1786.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA5141 | 1 | 1969-07-09 | S |
CA1786 | 1 | 1903-01-28 | O |
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 1,314 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 344 AF — 26% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 1,676 | 14th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 170 | 5.0 |
| 2009 | 1,458 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 148 | 5.0 |
| 2010 | 1,696 | 15th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 172 | 5.0 |
| 2011 | 526 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 54 | 5.0 |
| 2012 | 902 | 4th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 96 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 1,494 | 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 165 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 1,336 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 184 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 1,489 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 175 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 1,110 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 135 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 1,573 | 13th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 194 | 17.0 |
| 2018 | 1,314 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 164 | 5.0 |
| 2019 | 1,162 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 179 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 1,153 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 171 | 6.5 |
| 2021 | 696 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 102 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 344 | 1st lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 69 | 5.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-49 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.038).
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 9077 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 38% of the irrigation seasons in 1912-2023 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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