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KENNEDY DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 2800806 · 1 · RAZOR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:43 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 1878-03-15 — 3rd most senior of the 1505 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: CABIN CREEK DITCH (1877-12-31). Immediately behind: KENNEDY DITCH NO 2 (1878-03-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10301.0 | 1878-03-15 | 1894-05-01 | 1.95 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 3 |
| 28311.10301 | 1878-03-15 | 1943-04-19 | 21.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 204 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 266 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 172 AF — 65% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 307 | 10th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 139 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 161 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 173 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 216 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 98 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 419 | 12th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 61 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 379 | 11th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 46 | 4.2 |
| 2016 | 704 | 14th lowest of 15 · 265% of median | 105 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 453 | 13th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 89 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 162 | 4th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 66 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 987 | 15th lowest of 15 · 371% of median | 118 | 5.6 |
| 2020 | 266 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 65 | 2.8 |
| 2021 | 139 | 1st lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 52 | 2.7 |
| 2022 | 250 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 83 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 149 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 42 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 299 | 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 80 | 3.3 |
| 2025 | 172 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 82 | 1.1 |
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