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MCDONALD & HALL D
Structure dossier · WDID 4400697 · 1 · LITTLE COTTONWOOD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:15 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 1907-09-17 — 470th most senior of the 3562 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: MCDONALD DITCH (1907-05-10). Immediately behind: LITTLE COTTONWOOD CK RES (1909-07-14).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31325.21078 | 1907-09-17 | 1937-04-29 | 1.08 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 120C |
| 45050.0 | 1973-05-05 | 1973-12-31 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 125 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 341 AF — 273% of that, and 14th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 125 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 29 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 145 | 10th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 49 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 17 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 18 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 130 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 34 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 121 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 61 | 1.2 |
| 2015 | 234 | 12th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | 58 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 110 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 26 | 2.3 |
| 2018 | 147 | 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 32 | 3.6 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 43 | 4th lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 26 | 2.4 |
| 2022 | 94 | 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 70 | 2.8 |
| 2023 | 260 | 13th lowest of 15 · 208% of median | 56 | 2.7 |
| 2024 | 346 | 15th lowest of 15 · 277% of median | 84 | 2.7 |
| 2025 | 341 | 14th lowest of 15 · 273% of median | 52 | 5.0 |
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