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MCCABE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800884 · 1 · CAPITOL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:53 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 in line
Priority 1898-09-29 — 273rd most senior of the 4788 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: CAPITOL FALLS DITCH (1898-09-29). Immediately behind: ELLA DITCH (1885-06-22).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19306.17804 | 1898-09-29 | 1902-11-17 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 212A |
| 36396.24549 | 1917-03-19 | 1952-10-24 | 5.28 | 0.0 | C | IRROTH | 526 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 35 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 1 AF — 3% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 226 | 13th lowest of 15 · 646% of median | 134 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 984 | 15th lowest of 15 · 2811% of median | 125 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 60 | 9th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 13 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 32 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 5 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 35 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 6 | 3.5 |
| 2009 | 62 | 10th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 8 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 97 | 11th lowest of 15 · 277% of median | 14 | 3.8 |
| 2011 | 562 | 14th lowest of 15 · 1606% of median | 130 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 16 | 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 5 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 120 | 12th lowest of 15 · 343% of median | 126 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 18 | 5th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 4 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 5 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 4 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 9 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 7 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 31 | 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 28 | 0.6 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 2 | 0.5 |
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