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MCCARTHY SPRING 3
Structure dossier · WDID 4301040 · 4 · MCCARTHY GULCH · 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 (a1c9146) — 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 1986-10-09 — 2440th most senior of the 3293 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: CABIN SPRING 1 (1986-10-07). Immediately behind: MCCARTHY SPRING 4 (1986-10-09).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49955.0 | 1986-10-09 | 1986-12-31 | 0.033 | 0.0 | C | STOSTK |
Recorded use (last 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 481 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1973, came in at 481 AF — 100% of that, and 5th lowest of the 9 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 217 | 3rd lowest of 9 · 45% of median | 74 | 1.5 |
| 1962 | 754 | 8th lowest of 9 · 157% of median | 96 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 486 | 6th lowest of 9 · 101% of median | 155 | 1.6 |
| 1967 | 153 | 2nd lowest of 9 · 32% of median | 104 | 0.8 |
| 1968 | 75 | 1st lowest of 9 · 16% of median | 40 | 1.0 |
| 1969 | 261 | 4th lowest of 9 · 54% of median | 118 | 1.6 |
| 1970 | 978 | 9th lowest of 9 · 203% of median | 119 | 4.2 |
| 1971 | 735 | 7th lowest of 9 · 153% of median | 111 | 4.2 |
| 1973 | 481 | 5th lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 179 | 2.0 |
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