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MCLELLAN RES
Structure dossier · WDID 0803832 · RESERVOIR · DAD CLARK GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.
Current administration
● Junior rights called out — call at CANAL 3 DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1870-04-01).
● Junior rights called out — call at BIG T PLATTE R DITCH (BIG THOMPSON RIVER, priority 1865-11-18).
● Junior rights called out — call at B H EATON DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1864-06-09).
● Junior rights called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).
● Junior rights called out — call at NEVADA DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1865-12-30).
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 1863-05-01 — 110th most senior of the 21881 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: 8001024 (1863-04-01). Immediately behind: 8000660 (1863-05-01).
Decreed rights (14)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4869.0 | 1863-05-01 | 1913-05-22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMSTKAUG | |
| 4869.0 | 1863-05-01 | 1913-05-22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMSTKAUG | |
| 10348.0 | 1878-05-01 | 1889-10-18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMSTKAUGRCH | |
| 10348.0 | 1878-05-01 | 1889-10-18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMSTKAUGRCH | |
| 11170.0 | 1880-07-31 | 1889-10-18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMSTKAUGRCH | |
| 11170.0 | 1880-07-31 | 1889-10-18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMSTKAUGRCH | |
| 11414.0 | 1881-04-01 | 1889-10-18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMSTKAUGRCH | |
| 11414.0 | 1881-04-01 | 1889-10-18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMSTKAUGRCH | |
| 36060.0 | 1948-09-23 | 1972-05-18 | 4616.0 | 0.0 | A | MUN | |
| 49598.0 | 1985-10-17 | 1985-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMSTKAUGWLD | |
| 50759.0 | 1988-12-21 | 1988-12-31 | 287.1 | 5652.9 | A | IRRMUNCOMINDDOMAUG | |
| 51134.50848 | 1989-03-20 | 1990-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNALL | |
| 51485.0 | 1990-12-17 | 1990-12-31 | 0.0 | 6125.5 | A | MUNALL | |
| 51485.0 | 1990-12-17 | 1990-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNALL |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,640 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 5,945 AF — 362% of that, and 12th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 1,619 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 226 | 365 | 30.0 |
| 2006 | 880 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 244 | 362 | 8.6 |
| 2007 | 1,356 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 224 | 365 | 27.3 |
| 2008 | 4,700 | 10th lowest of 15 · 287% of median | 91 | 366 | 42.1 |
| 2009 | 15,328 | 15th lowest of 15 · 935% of median | 13 | 365 | 50.0 |
| 2010 | 13,583 | 14th lowest of 15 · 828% of median | 52 | 304 | 46.3 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1st lowest of 15 · 1% of median | — | 5 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | 1,566 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | — | 123 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 1,469 | 4th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | — | 363 | 42.5 |
| 2019 | 2,756 | 9th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | — | 344 | 26.7 |
| 2020 | 1,479 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | — | 104 | 19.0 |
| 2021 | 6,227 | 13th lowest of 15 · 380% of median | — | 365 | 23.8 |
| 2022 | 1,640 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 365 | 66.9 |
| 2023 | 5,198 | 11th lowest of 15 · 317% of median | — | 365 | 27.1 |
| 2024 | 5,945 | 12th lowest of 15 · 362% of median | — | 305 | 21.7 |
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