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KERLEE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500659 · 1 · MONUMENT GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:37 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.
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 1901-03-23 — 167th most senior of the 1378 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: OTTEN DITCH NO 1 (1910-04-01). Immediately behind: WANDERING JEW DITCH (1909-11-03).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22118.18709 | 1901-03-23 | 1910-08-26 | 0.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 122AAA |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 36 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2011, came in at 59 AF — 162% of that, and 7th lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 4 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 11% of median | 7 | 0.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | 5th lowest of 12 · 33% of median | 52 | 0.6 |
| 1995 | 266 | 12th lowest of 12 · 729% of median | 231 | 1.8 |
| 1996 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 8% of median | 36 | 0.1 |
| 1997 | 78 | 10th lowest of 12 · 214% of median | 214 | 0.4 |
| 1998 | 69 | 8th lowest of 12 · 189% of median | 210 | 0.3 |
| 1999 | 14 | 6th lowest of 12 · 38% of median | 207 | 0.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | 4th lowest of 12 · 27% of median | 190 | 0.1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 69 | 8th lowest of 12 · 189% of median | 84 | 1.1 |
| 2009 | 82 | 11th lowest of 12 · 225% of median | 71 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 59 | 7th lowest of 12 · 162% of median | 34 | 0.9 |
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