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KELLEY NO 1 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 4001007 · 1 · BELL CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:02 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 1900-04-01 — 1736th 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: HALLIE NO 2 DITCH (1899-05-01). Immediately behind: YOUNG DITCH ENLARGEMENT (1900-05-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
31924.183531900-04-011954-03-20 1.00.0 CIRR J71

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 400 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 250 AF — 62% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2010 400 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 155 2.3
2011 337 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 151 2.0
2012 296 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 127 1.5
2013 154 3rd lowest of 15 · 38% of median 96 1.2
2014 569 13th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 154 3.0
2015 593 14th lowest of 15 · 148% of median 173 2.0
2016 614 15th lowest of 15 · 154% of median 182 2.5
2017 444 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 115 2.0
2018 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 3 0.0
2019 470 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 118 2.2
2020 290 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median 74 2.0
2021 39 2nd lowest of 15 · 10% of median 42 0.5
2022 444 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 160 2.0
2023 498 12th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 130 2.0
2024 250 4th lowest of 15 · 62% of median 68 2.0

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.