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MCCONNELL IRRIGATING D
Structure dossier · WDID 2800634 · 1 · COCHETOPA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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 1888-05-01 — 129th most senior of the 1505 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: ELSEN COCHETOPA DITCH (1887-05-31). Immediately behind: JOHN MYERS DITCH (1888-05-06).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16192.14001 | 1888-05-01 | 1904-04-29 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 95 |
| 19417.0 | 1903-03-01 | 1904-04-29 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 133 |
| 28311.14001 | 1888-05-01 | 1943-04-19 | 6.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 254 |
| 28311.19539 | 1903-07-01 | 1943-04-19 | 8.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 282 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,162 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1996, came in at 1,170 AF — 101% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 803 | 6th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 89 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 504 | 4th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 78 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 1,357 | 12th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 83 | 10.0 |
| 1985 | 486 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 38 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 641 | 5th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 63 | 7.0 |
| 1987 | 444 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 71 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 341 | 1st lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 64 | 3.5 |
| 1989 | 1,279 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 134 | 5.0 |
| 1990 | 1,331 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 113 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 1,448 | 13th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 79 | 11.0 |
| 1992 | 1,841 | 14th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 102 | 10.0 |
| 1993 | 2,431 | 15th lowest of 15 · 209% of median | 116 | 12.0 |
| 1994 | 1,142 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 90 | 7.2 |
| 1995 | 1,162 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 67 | 10.0 |
| 1996 | 1,170 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 64 | 10.0 |
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