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MCFARLAND D A B
Structure dossier · WDID 2500619 · 1 · BUTTERFLY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:35 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1881-04-15 — 121st most senior of the 847 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: BARSCH D 1 (1881-04-15). Immediately behind: ROBINSON REESE D (1881-04-15).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11428.0 | 1881-04-15 | 1890-03-28 | 6.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 75 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 228 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 41 AF — 18% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 225 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 122 | 4.0 |
| 2007 | 228 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 133 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 704 | 14th lowest of 15 · 309% of median | 366 | 2.5 |
| 2009 | 570 | 13th lowest of 15 · 250% of median | 314 | 1.7 |
| 2010 | 378 | 9th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 186 | 1.4 |
| 2011 | 114 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 193 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | 138 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 58 | 1.2 |
| 2013 | 526 | 12th lowest of 15 · 231% of median | 305 | 1.2 |
| 2016 | 486 | 10th lowest of 15 · 213% of median | 117 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 788 | 15th lowest of 15 · 346% of median | 213 | 2.5 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 503 | 11th lowest of 15 · 221% of median | 153 | 3.5 |
| 2020 | 151 | 5th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 138 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 192 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 166 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 41 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 71 | 0.5 |
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