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KELMEL OWENS NO 1 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5900607 · 1 · GUNNISON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:16 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 in line
Priority 1879-06-01 — 21st most senior of the 2360 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: GUNNISON AND TOMICHI VALLEY DITCH ASSOCI (1879-02-06). Immediately behind: JOHN B OUTCALT NO 2 D (1879-07-10).
Decreed rights (9)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10744.0 | 1879-06-01 | 1906-09-14 | 5.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 12 |
| 14015.0 | 1888-05-15 | 1906-09-14 | 3.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 67 |
| 14397.0 | 1889-06-01 | 1906-09-14 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 76 |
| 15706.0 | 1892-12-31 | 1906-09-14 | 3.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 95 |
| 19863.0 | 1904-05-20 | 1906-09-14 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 170 |
| 24606.0 | 1917-05-15 | 1921-10-25 | 2.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 219 |
| 30667.10744 | 1879-06-01 | 1941-04-29 | 23.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 284 |
| 30667.1298 | 1885-07-15 | 1941-04-29 | 20.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 30667.24606 | 1917-05-15 | 1941-04-29 | 11.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 440 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 6,320 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 6,320 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7,850 | 12th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 148 | 36.3 |
| 2012 | 8,823 | 15th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 142 | 40.5 |
| 2013 | 6,504 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 129 | 31.3 |
| 2014 | 7,154 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 141 | 36.3 |
| 2015 | 2,842 | 1st lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 95 | 21.3 |
| 2016 | 3,171 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 123 | 27.2 |
| 2017 | 5,370 | 5th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 90 | 36.3 |
| 2018 | 6,960 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 128 | 38.3 |
| 2019 | 3,842 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 89 | 24.2 |
| 2020 | 8,061 | 13th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 136 | 42.6 |
| 2021 | 6,130 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 140 | 37.7 |
| 2022 | 8,242 | 14th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 167 | 32.0 |
| 2023 | 5,499 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 144 | 32.0 |
| 2024 | 4,535 | 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 118 | 30.3 |
| 2025 | 6,320 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 122 | 32.0 |
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