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Structure dossier · WDID 4000711 · 1 · KISER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:49 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.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1899-05-15 — 1335th most senior of the 4661 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: BONNELL DITCH (1897-04-15). Immediately behind: ORCHARD DITCH (1899-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24894.18032 | 1899-05-15 | 1920-08-28 | 0.625 | 0.0 | C | IRR | B8 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 14 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 35 | 10th lowest of 15 · 250% of median | 38 | 0.5 |
| 2011 | 18 | 9th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 21 | 0.8 |
| 2012 | 67 | 11th lowest of 15 · 479% of median | 96 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 119 | 13th lowest of 15 · 850% of median | 113 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 357 | 15th lowest of 15 · 2550% of median | 180 | 1.2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 9 | 7th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 47 | 0.2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 112 | 12th lowest of 15 · 800% of median | 99 | 0.8 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 14 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 24 | 0.5 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 303 | 14th lowest of 15 · 2164% of median | 154 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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