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CHARLES H KEMMER D
Structure dossier · WDID 5800583 · 1 · ELK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:23 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 1901-10-02 — 265th most senior of the 3097 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: FOLLETT DITCH (1902-06-20). Immediately behind: DUCEY DITCH (1887-09-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19628.18902 | 1901-10-02 | 1903-09-30 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 161A |
| 33782.26814 | 1923-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 327 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 485 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 164 AF — 34% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 726 | 12th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 114 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 21 | 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 39 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 473 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 91 | 3.3 |
| 2014 | 575 | 9th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 156 | 2.5 |
| 2015 | 207 | 5th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 113 | 2.6 |
| 2016 | 773 | 14th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 64 | 6.4 |
| 2017 | 485 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 154 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 679 | 11th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 79 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 64 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 38 | 0.9 |
| 2020 | 626 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 67 | 5.9 |
| 2021 | 938 | 15th lowest of 15 · 193% of median | 117 | 5.9 |
| 2022 | 276 | 6th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 78 | 4.5 |
| 2023 | 47 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 44 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 728 | 13th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 76 | 15.1 |
| 2025 | 164 | 4th lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 73 | 2.4 |
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