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MCKINLAY DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 4400700 · 1 · ELKHEAD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:25 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 1890-05-01 — 71st 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: MCKINLAY DITCH NO 1 (1890-05-01). Immediately behind: S FORK CG (1891-10-16).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14731.0 | 1890-05-01 | 1892-09-22 | 11.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 51 |
| 23170.19981 | 1904-09-15 | 1913-06-16 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 78.5AAA |
| 45655.42656 | 1966-10-15 | 1975-12-31 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 45857.0 | 1975-07-21 | 1975-12-31 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 308 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 165 AF — 54% of that, and 6th 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 | 1,132 | 14th lowest of 15 · 368% of median | 69 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 93 | 4th lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 36 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 745 | 13th lowest of 15 · 242% of median | 60 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 601 | 12th lowest of 15 · 195% of median | 59 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 1,448 | 15th lowest of 15 · 470% of median | 47 | 20.0 |
| 2015 | 417 | 9th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 45 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 555 | 11th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 44 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 139 | 5th lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 38 | 1.9 |
| 2021 | 186 | 7th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 35 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 531 | 10th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 56 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 308 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 35 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 165 | 6th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 35 | 4.5 |
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