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KENNEY SPRING NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 7205253 · 4 · COLORADO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:11 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 1986-07-08 — 1516th 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: DOMINGUEZ DIVERSION (1986-05-15). Immediately behind: KENNEY SPRING NO 2 (1986-07-08).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51134.49862 | 1986-07-08 | 1990-12-31 | 0.055 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 54786.53842 | 1997-05-31 | 2000-12-31 | 0.446 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
00CW0041, 99CW0253, 90CW0001.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
00CW0041 | 1 | 2000-12-31 | S |
99CW0253 | 3 | 1990-12-31 | S |
90CW0001 | 1 | 1990-12-31 | 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 4 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 12 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2013, came in at 296 AF — 2467% of that, and 4th lowest of the 4 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 | 6 | 1st lowest of 4 · 50% of median | 69 | 0.1 |
| 2011 | 8 | 2nd lowest of 4 · 67% of median | 82 | 0.1 |
| 2012 | 16 | 3rd lowest of 4 · 133% of median | 7 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 296 | 4th lowest of 4 · 2467% of median | 129 | 1.3 |
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 287 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 37% of the irrigation seasons in 2010-2013 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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