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KENNEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700978 · 1 · MCKENZIE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 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 1889-05-01 — 198th most senior of the 1262 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: ERIKA DITCH (1889-05-01). Immediately behind: TOLEDO DITCH (1889-05-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14366.0 | 1889-05-01 | 1902-04-23 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 178 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 271 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 851 AF — 314% of that, and 15th 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 | 227 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 69 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 159 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 68 | 1.5 |
| 2010 | 403 | 11th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 99 | 3.0 |
| 2012 | 226 | 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 78 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 721 | 12th lowest of 15 · 266% of median | 140 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 730 | 13th lowest of 15 · 269% of median | 179 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 271 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 113 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 379 | 10th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 151 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 808 | 14th lowest of 15 · 298% of median | 143 | 4.5 |
| 2021 | 111 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 56 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 186 | 4th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 15 | 6.7 |
| 2023 | 233 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 36 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 276 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 104 | 1.4 |
| 2025 | 851 | 15th lowest of 15 · 314% of median | 149 | 2.9 |
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