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KIRBY WASTE WATER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300668 · 1 · RED DIRT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:25 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.
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 1903-12-31 — 276th most senior of the 1231 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: KIRBY JONES DITCH HGT 1 (1903-12-31). Immediately behind: WILSON SEEP & WSTE DITCH (1903-12-31).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33023.19722 | 1903-12-31 | 1956-02-07 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 280 |
| 37851.0 | 1953-08-19 | 1956-02-07 | 2.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 400 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 365 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 496 AF — 136% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 207 | 4th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 97 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 607 | 13th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 116 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 670 | 14th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 180 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 852 | 15th lowest of 15 · 233% of median | 200 | 3.0 |
| 2011 | 461 | 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 138 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 219 | 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 194 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 313 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 90 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 564 | 12th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 183 | 2.3 |
| 2016 | 437 | 9th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 150 | 2.0 |
| 2017 | 365 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 165 | 1.7 |
| 2018 | 133 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 79 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 84 | 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 38 | 2.0 |
| 2020 | 84 | 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 57 | 0.8 |
| 2022 | 282 | 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 129 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 496 | 11th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 169 | 1.5 |
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