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KUHN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5200586 · 1 · PINEY RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:31 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 1889-08-31 — 27th most senior of the 562 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: TRAIL & CASTLE CR CONSOL (1889-08-29). Immediately behind: BAIR DITCH (1890-04-01).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14488.0 | 1889-08-31 | 1890-11-20 | 3.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 25 |
| 22702.19173 | 1902-06-30 | 1912-07-08 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 92 |
| 29437.22834 | 1912-07-08 | 1946-08-30 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 150 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 119 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 34 AF — 29% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 160 | 11th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 59 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 158 | 10th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 76 | 1.8 |
| 2002 | 161 | 12th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 29 | 2.9 |
| 2003 | 494 | 15th lowest of 15 · 415% of median | 93 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 96 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 64 | 0.8 |
| 2011 | 220 | 14th lowest of 15 · 185% of median | 108 | 1.1 |
| 2014 | 119 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 99 | 0.6 |
| 2015 | 186 | 13th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 185 | 0.9 |
| 2016 | 92 | 5th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 134 | 0.4 |
| 2017 | 123 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 133 | 0.6 |
| 2018 | 30 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 56 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 31 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 51 | 0.4 |
| 2021 | 118 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 67 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1st lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 13 | 0.5 |
| 2024 | 34 | 4th lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 39 | 0.5 |
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