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KENNEDY DITCH NO 5
Structure dossier · WDID 2800810 · 1 · RAZOR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 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 1880-05-01 — 57th 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: HOT SPRINGS NO 2 DITCH AP (1880-05-01). Immediately behind: ADAMS NO 1 DITCH (1880-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16192.11079 | 1880-05-01 | 1904-04-29 | 1.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 47 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 182 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 0 AF — 0% 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 | 438 | 13th lowest of 15 · 241% of median | 124 | 2.7 |
| 2009 | 217 | 9th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 102 | 1.5 |
| 2010 | 272 | 12th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 100 | 1.8 |
| 2011 | 45 | 6th lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 53 | 0.6 |
| 2012 | 30 | 5th lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 35 | 0.8 |
| 2013 | 112 | 7th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 118 | 1.1 |
| 2014 | 217 | 9th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 51 | 2.2 |
| 2015 | 220 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 31 | 4.5 |
| 2016 | 604 | 15th lowest of 15 · 332% of median | 105 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 444 | 14th lowest of 15 · 244% of median | 134 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 182 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 33 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
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