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KITTRIDGE DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 1200757 · 1 · WEST FOURMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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.
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 1870-08-31 — 93rd most senior of the 1967 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: CASCADE DITCH (1870-08-01). Immediately behind: KITTRIDGE DITCH NO 2 APOD (1870-08-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7548.0 | 1870-08-31 | 1894-02-03 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 24 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 364 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 697 AF — 192% of that, and 14th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 655 | 12th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 166 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 758 | 15th lowest of 15 · 208% of median | 193 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 627 | 11th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 159 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 186 | 6th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 121 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 673 | 13th lowest of 15 · 185% of median | 142 | 4.0 |
| 2016 | 364 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 136 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 232 | 7th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 145 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 20 | 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 28 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 100 | 5th lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 74 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 76 | 4th lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 69 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 41 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 63 | 0.7 |
| 2022 | 43 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 18 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 410 | 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 94 | 2.3 |
| 2024 | 412 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 128 | 2.3 |
| 2025 | 697 | 14th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 173 | 2.0 |
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