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Structure dossier · WDID 7000526 · 1 · KIMBALL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:00 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 1885-06-01 — 27th most senior of the 519 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: CAUGHMAN DITCH (1885-06-01). Immediately behind: FRASHIER DITCH (1885-06-01).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12936.0 | 1885-06-01 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 13255.0 | 1886-04-16 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 13463.0 | 1886-11-10 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 14015.0 | 1888-05-15 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
W0383, W0295.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W0383 | 2 | 1889-05-11 | O |
W0295 | 2 | 1889-05-11 | 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 223 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 264 AF — 118% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 300 | 11th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 72 | 2.3 |
| 1998 | 735 | 15th lowest of 15 · 330% of median | 141 | 3.2 |
| 1999 | 406 | 12th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 83 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 223 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 135 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 149 | 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 89 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 150 | 7th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 53 | 1.5 |
| 2007 | 12 | 1st lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 33 | 0.2 |
| 2008 | 495 | 13th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 124 | 3.5 |
| 2009 | 108 | 4th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 66 | 2.7 |
| 2010 | 280 | 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 78 | 3.6 |
| 2011 | 719 | 14th lowest of 15 · 322% of median | 85 | 5.4 |
| 2012 | 128 | 5th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 169 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 14 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 38 | 0.2 |
| 2017 | 41 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 73 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 264 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 59 | 2.7 |
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 B (7/10 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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3050 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 30% of the irrigation seasons in 1972-2019 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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