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MCKENZIE WILDCAT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800890 · 1 · SNOWMASS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:58 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 1906-09-05 — 579th 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: PEACH BLOW PUMP NO 4 (1906-09-04). Immediately behind: HENRY DITCH (1906-09-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30941.20701 | 1906-09-05 | 1936-08-25 | 22.89 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 375 |
| 57708.57601 | 2007-09-15 | 2016-08-31 | 0.0 | 2.0 | C | RECFISFIRAUGOTHWLD | 375 |
Legal record & documents
9 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
07CW0256, W0080, CA3082, 03CW0061, 03CW0022, 02CW0271.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
07CW0256 | 1 | 2016-08-31 | S |
W0080 | 1 | 1936-08-25 | S |
CA3082 | 2 | 1936-08-25 | S |
03CW0061 | 2 | 1936-08-25 | S |
03CW0022 | 2 | 1936-08-25 | S |
02CW0271 | 1 | 1936-08-25 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,389 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 2,389 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 307 | 1st lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 46 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 2,415 | 10th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 141 | 13.9 |
| 2012 | 2,245 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 173 | 86.0 |
| 2013 | 2,244 | 5th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 149 | 14.7 |
| 2014 | 2,911 | 15th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 136 | 16.8 |
| 2015 | 2,463 | 11th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 166 | 13.7 |
| 2016 | 2,414 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 146 | 13.0 |
| 2017 | 2,313 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 149 | 13.3 |
| 2018 | 1,749 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 149 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 2,739 | 13th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 152 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 2,167 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 161 | 13.5 |
| 2021 | 2,237 | 4th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 157 | 13.9 |
| 2022 | 2,485 | 12th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 151 | 31.0 |
| 2023 | 2,779 | 14th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 168 | 13.0 |
| 2024 | 2,389 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 161 | 13.1 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 6873 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 65% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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