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KIGGINS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200728 · 1 · SALT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:02 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 1892-06-12 — 115th most senior of the 2166 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: JACKSON DITCH (PLATEAU) (1892-04-01). Immediately behind: KIGGINS DITCH AP (1892-06-12).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18749.15504 | 1892-06-12 | 1905-10-14 | 1.52 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 30895.23609 | 1914-08-22 | 1941-07-25 | 0.82 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 32811.0 | 1939-11-01 | 1941-07-25 | 0.36 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 34419.20423 | 1905-12-01 | 1959-07-21 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | DOM |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 378 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 655 AF — 173% of that, and 12th 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 | 1,006 | 15th lowest of 15 · 266% of median | 304 | 5.4 |
| 2011 | 721 | 13th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 234 | 3.5 |
| 2012 | 961 | 14th lowest of 15 · 254% of median | 290 | 4.3 |
| 2013 | 280 | 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 159 | 4.3 |
| 2014 | 491 | 10th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 155 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 207 | 4th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 185 | 1.2 |
| 2016 | 209 | 5th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 238 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 200 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 190 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 309 | 7th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 286 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 382 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 312 | 2.4 |
| 2020 | 95 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 163 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 84 | 1st lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 193 | 0.6 |
| 2022 | 378 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 281 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 558 | 11th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 81 | 4.3 |
| 2024 | 655 | 12th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 111 | 4.2 |
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