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KELMEL OWENS NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5900608 · 1 · GUNNISON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:21 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 1884-06-01 — 98th 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: DILLSWORTH DITCH (1884-05-01). Immediately behind: DOS RIOS MUN WELL NO 1 (1884-06-01).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12571.0 | 1884-06-01 | 1906-09-14 | 6.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISFIRDOMWLD | 48 |
| 14397.0 | 1889-06-01 | 1906-09-14 | 1.1426 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISWLD | 76 |
| 16223.0 | 1894-06-01 | 1906-09-14 | 2.4314 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISWLD | 102 |
| 19256.0 | 1902-09-21 | 1906-09-14 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 158 |
| 30667.12571 | 1884-06-01 | 1941-04-29 | 36.052 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISWLD | 314 |
| 30667.22066 | 1910-06-01 | 1941-04-29 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 417 |
Legal record & documents
28 decreed actions on record across
12 court cases:
W3083, W2320, W2319, W2251, W2128, CA5841, CA2021, 92CW0156, W1882, W1819 and 2 more below.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W3083 | 3 | 1941-04-29 | O, S |
W2320 | 3 | 1941-04-29 | O, S |
W2319 | 3 | 1941-04-29 | O, S |
W2251 | 2 | 1941-04-29 | O, S |
W2128 | 4 | 1941-04-29 | O, S |
CA5841 | 2 | 1941-04-29 | O, S |
CA2021 | 1 | 1941-04-29 | S |
92CW0156 | 4 | 1941-04-29 | O, S |
W1882 | 1 | 1906-09-14 | O |
W1819 | 1 | 1906-09-14 | O |
CA1325 | 3 | 1906-09-14 | O |
03CW0054 | 1 | 1906-09-14 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,606 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 2,430 AF — 93% of that, and 5th 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 | 2,657 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 200 | 11.5 |
| 2012 | 4,302 | 15th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 210 | 20.0 |
| 2013 | 2,234 | 4th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 193 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 2,496 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 191 | 14.0 |
| 2015 | 1,860 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 213 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 1,455 | 1st lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 197 | 13.6 |
| 2017 | 3,011 | 12th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 203 | 18.6 |
| 2018 | 2,606 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 209 | 17.0 |
| 2019 | 3,393 | 14th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 176 | 13.8 |
| 2020 | 2,517 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 177 | 13.6 |
| 2021 | 3,166 | 13th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 207 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 2,899 | 11th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 220 | 15.5 |
| 2023 | 2,857 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 190 | 16.5 |
| 2024 | 2,022 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 200 | 14.0 |
| 2025 | 2,430 | 5th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 201 | 16.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 6 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 9188 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 85% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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