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MACFARLANE MEADOWS D
Structure dossier · WDID 4700763 · 1 · MICHIGAN RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 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.
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 1892-09-19 — 259th most senior of the 1262 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: LAKE CREEK DITCH (1892-09-19). Immediately behind: SHAFER DITCH (1892-09-19).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15603.0 | 1892-09-19 | 1908-07-01 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 253 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 476 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 508 AF — 107% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 551 | 11th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 58 | 8.0 |
| 2007 | 563 | 12th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 55 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 870 | 13th lowest of 15 · 183% of median | 47 | 12.7 |
| 2009 | 539 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 59 | 7.5 |
| 2010 | 413 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 58 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 882 | 14th lowest of 15 · 185% of median | 58 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 32 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 3 | 8.0 |
| 2013 | 452 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 38 | 7.5 |
| 2014 | 476 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 44 | 6.0 |
| 2015 | 315 | 5th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 78 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 275 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 54 | 2.7 |
| 2017 | 298 | 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 75 | 5.7 |
| 2018 | 968 | 15th lowest of 15 · 203% of median | 62 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 508 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 34 | 8.0 |
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