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ULRICH KUSTER DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 1301105 · 1 · MUSIC PASS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:49 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 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 1885-06-15 — 413th most senior of the 1017 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: BEAVER DITCH (1885-06-05). Immediately behind: WM SCHULZ DITCH NO 3 (1885-07-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12950.0 | 1885-06-15 | 1896-03-12 | 1.12 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 394 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 55 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 30 AF — 54% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 24 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 26 | 0.5 |
| 2004 | 27 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 28 | 0.5 |
| 2005 | 55 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 56 | 0.5 |
| 2007 | 96 | 14th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 61 | 1.2 |
| 2008 | 53 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 72 | 0.4 |
| 2009 | 79 | 11th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 52 | 1.1 |
| 2010 | 27 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 44 | 0.3 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1st lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 11 | 0.9 |
| 2014 | 229 | 15th lowest of 15 · 416% of median | 112 | 1.1 |
| 2015 | 45 | 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 39 | 0.9 |
| 2016 | 75 | 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 50 | 0.8 |
| 2017 | 74 | 9th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 24 | 1.7 |
| 2019 | 85 | 12th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 51 | 1.6 |
| 2021 | 90 | 13th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 41 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 30 | 5th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 12 | 1.6 |
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