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MCMURRAY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000844 · 1 · HAMILTON DRAW · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 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 1895-08-31 — 1256th most senior of the 4661 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: ELLINGTON DEVELOPMENT D (1895-08-01). Immediately behind: ROBERTS STUCKER DITCH (1896-02-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21263.16679 | 1895-08-31 | 1914-06-23 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A39 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 182 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 786 AF — 432% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 782 | 13th lowest of 15 · 430% of median | 202 | 3.9 |
| 2010 | 92 | 7th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 53 | 1.6 |
| 2011 | 783 | 14th lowest of 15 · 430% of median | 211 | 3.6 |
| 2012 | 666 | 11th lowest of 15 · 366% of median | 198 | 6.1 |
| 2013 | 84 | 6th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 120 | 0.7 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.8 |
| 2015 | 233 | 9th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 28 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 728 | 12th lowest of 15 · 400% of median | 186 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | 2 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 2 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 33 | 5th lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 54 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 577 | 10th lowest of 15 · 317% of median | 169 | 1.7 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.6 |
| 2021 | 7 | 4th lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 70 | 0.1 |
| 2022 | 182 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 78 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 786 | 15th lowest of 15 · 432% of median | 146 | 2.9 |
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