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KINLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6000659 · 1 · SAN MIGUEL RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:45 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 1911-08-15 — 849th most senior of the 2893 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: GREAGER PIPELINE & DITCH (1926-10-22). Immediately behind: LONE STAR DITCH (1902-10-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30604.28053 | 1911-08-15 | 1939-11-01 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 272 |
| 32050.0 | 1937-10-01 | 1939-11-01 | 2.0 | 0.5 | C | IRR | 360 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
85CW0119, CA4641.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
85CW0119 | 2 | 1939-12-31 | S |
CA4641 | 2 | 1939-11-01 | S |
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 164 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 176 AF — 107% of that, and 9th 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 | 793 | 15th lowest of 15 · 484% of median | 120 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 553 | 13th lowest of 15 · 337% of median | 77 | 4.5 |
| 2012 | 613 | 14th lowest of 15 · 374% of median | 153 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 412 | 10th lowest of 15 · 251% of median | 69 | 3.8 |
| 2014 | 549 | 12th lowest of 15 · 335% of median | 135 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 138 | 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 85 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 164 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 65 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 150 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 60 | 1.6 |
| 2018 | 147 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 33 | 2.5 |
| 2019 | 162 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 73 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 112 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 61 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 48 | 1st lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 26 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 67 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 50 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 435 | 11th lowest of 15 · 265% of median | 93 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 176 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 85 | 2.1 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-36 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.010).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4683 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 43% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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