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KELLER BROTHERS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4100536 · 1 · SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:03 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 1885-04-01 — 141st most senior of the 1104 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: ROATCAP SPRING NO 2 (1926-04-17). Immediately behind: CHAIREZ WELL NO 1 (1886-04-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29038.12875 | 1885-04-01 | 1941-12-04 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 162 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 333 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 187 AF — 56% of that, and 3rd 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 | 48 | 1st lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 14 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 496 | 13th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 54 | 5.0 |
| 2010 | 246 | 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 25 | 5.9 |
| 2011 | 684 | 14th lowest of 15 · 205% of median | 69 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 274 | 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 26 | 6.0 |
| 2013 | 333 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 45 | 7.0 |
| 2014 | 390 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 49 | 6.0 |
| 2015 | 776 | 15th lowest of 15 · 233% of median | 93 | 6.0 |
| 2016 | 406 | 11th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 40 | 8.4 |
| 2017 | 355 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 61 | 4.4 |
| 2019 | 452 | 12th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 40 | 6.0 |
| 2020 | 164 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 18 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 210 | 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 31 | 4.2 |
| 2022 | 310 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 40 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 187 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 26 | 4.0 |
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