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KAGIE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4400818 · 1 · SALT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1947-05-01 — 602nd most senior of the 3562 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: BAILEY DITCH - ENLARGEMENT (1941-05-15). Immediately behind: ROCK SPRINGS GULCH DITCH (1948-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40421.35549 | 1947-05-01 | 1972-05-30 | 4.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 17, 17A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 83 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 318 AF — 383% of that, and 14th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 47 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 16 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 113 | 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 48 | 2.0 |
| 2003 | 64 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 60 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 75 | 4th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 58 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 83 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 16 | 3.0 |
| 2010 | 212 | 13th lowest of 15 · 255% of median | 154 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 113 | 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 68 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 76 | 5th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 51 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | 45 | 1st lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 88 | 0.6 |
| 2018 | 141 | 12th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 63 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 91 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 98 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 79 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 65 | 1.7 |
| 2022 | 79 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 64 | 1.4 |
| 2023 | 350 | 15th lowest of 15 · 422% of median | 73 | 3.2 |
| 2024 | 318 | 14th lowest of 15 · 383% of median | 60 | 3.1 |
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