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KELLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800791 · 1 · CRYSTAL SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:52 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 in line
Priority 1885-04-20 — 165th most senior of the 4788 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: KELSO DITCH PT DVR 1 NPD (1885-04-15). Immediately behind: WEAVER AND LEONHARDY D (1885-04-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12894.0 | 1885-04-20 | 1889-05-11 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFISFIRDOMSTK | 116 |
| 23189.186 | 1900-12-04 | 1913-11-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 213BBBAB |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,305 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 2,190 AF — 168% of that, and 12th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 2,858 | 15th lowest of 15 · 219% of median | 193 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 2,341 | 14th lowest of 15 · 179% of median | 186 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 2,214 | 13th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 143 | 14.0 |
| 2012 | 1,113 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 172 | 4.1 |
| 2013 | 1,059 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 164 | 4.1 |
| 2014 | 1,305 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 158 | 6.0 |
| 2015 | 1,654 | 10th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 185 | 8.5 |
| 2016 | 1,965 | 11th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 169 | 9.0 |
| 2018 | 1,232 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 198 | 4.8 |
| 2019 | 1,101 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 173 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 1,022 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 205 | 3.2 |
| 2021 | 861 | 1st lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 138 | 3.2 |
| 2022 | 953 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 166 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 1,577 | 9th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 160 | 10.2 |
| 2024 | 2,190 | 12th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 134 | 11.6 |
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