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PALMER-MCKINLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3600765 · 1 · BLUE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:20 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.
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 1896-09-01 — 163rd most senior of the 1247 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: COPPER MTN WELL NO 5 (1896-06-01). Immediately behind: GUTHRIE THOMAS DITCH (1897-05-01).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17046.0 | 1896-09-01 | 1910-03-02 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 102 |
| 19141.0 | 1902-05-29 | 1910-03-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 135 |
| 32075.27539 | 1925-05-26 | 1952-03-10 | 9.87 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 333 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,705 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,135 AF — 67% of that, and 4th 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 | 1,705 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 127 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 1,303 | 5th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 64 | 12.7 |
| 2009 | 1,494 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 80 | 20.7 |
| 2010 | 1,450 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 69 | 16.3 |
| 2014 | 2,047 | 9th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 71 | 17.6 |
| 2015 | 3,546 | 14th lowest of 15 · 208% of median | 154 | 16.6 |
| 2016 | 3,376 | 13th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 121 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 2,125 | 10th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 68 | 16.5 |
| 2018 | 2,323 | 11th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 149 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 3,593 | 15th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 159 | 13.6 |
| 2020 | 2,596 | 12th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 141 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 1,111 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 156 | 12.2 |
| 2022 | 741 | 1st lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 150 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 1,132 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 179 | 6.7 |
| 2024 | 1,135 | 4th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 147 | 10.6 |
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