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KENNICOTT & MOWER D
Structure dossier · WDID 4000720 · 1 · TONGUE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:41 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
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
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 1886-08-20 — 146th 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: KISER DITCH (1886-08-16). Immediately behind: A. A. SMITH DITCH (1886-08-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13381.0 | 1886-08-20 | 1889-06-17 | 2.1 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 10 |
| 29260.14414 | 1889-06-18 | 1937-05-28 | 4.29 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H9 |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
CA2563, 95CW0143, CA0038, 75CW0090.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2563 | 1 | 1937-05-28 | S |
95CW0143 | 1 | 1937-05-28 | S |
CA0038 | 2 | 1889-06-17 | O |
75CW0090 | 1 | 1889-06-17 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 882 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 871 AF — 99% of that, and 7th 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 | 1,308 | 13th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 187 | 3.8 |
| 2011 | 1,426 | 15th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 191 | 5.0 |
| 2012 | 1,219 | 10th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 186 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 799 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 145 | 4.9 |
| 2014 | 1,225 | 11th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 186 | 3.6 |
| 2015 | 1,266 | 12th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 171 | 5.6 |
| 2016 | 1,313 | 14th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 187 | 4.5 |
| 2017 | 1,110 | 9th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 176 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 721 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 192 | 3.3 |
| 2019 | 882 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 128 | 3.5 |
| 2020 | 620 | 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 171 | 2.3 |
| 2021 | 510 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 120 | 2.3 |
| 2022 | 446 | 1st lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 201 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 600 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 127 | 2.4 |
| 2024 | 871 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 184 | 2.4 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-67 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.003).
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 9792 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 84% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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