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KURTZ DITCH NO 1

Structure dossier · WDID 5000592 · 1 · TROUBLESOME CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 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 1890-06-10 — 41st most senior of the 360 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: BIG SPRING DITCH (1890-05-10). Immediately behind: MARTIN NO 1 DITCH (SOUTH FORK HGT) (1890-06-30).

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
14771.01890-06-101906-08-11 1.50.0 CIRR 41

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 90 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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)
2006 96 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 53 1.4
2007 123 11th lowest of 15 · 137% of median 57 1.4
2008 214 14th lowest of 15 · 238% of median 59 2.3
2009 90 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 43 1.2
2010 123 11th lowest of 15 · 137% of median 55 1.8
2011 294 15th lowest of 15 · 327% of median 61 2.8
2012 67 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 29 1.2
2013 86 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 38 1.5
2014 142 13th lowest of 15 · 158% of median 44 1.9
2015 59 4th lowest of 15 · 66% of median 25 1.3
2016 92 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 36 1.5
2017 78 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median 32 1.5
2018 20 2nd lowest of 15 · 22% of median 23 0.5
2019 38 3rd lowest of 15 · 42% of median 30 1.0
2022 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 6 0.0

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