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MCQUEARY DITCH 6
Structure dossier · WDID 5100816 · 1 · WILLOW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:48 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 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 1880-06-05 — 7th most senior of the 2208 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: BATTLE CREEK DITCH NO 1 (1880-06-01). Immediately behind: EIGHT MILE DITCH NO 1 (1880-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11114.0 | 1880-06-05 | 1906-08-11 | 7.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 181 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2017, came in at 324 AF — 179% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 99 | 7th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 15 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1998 | 89 | 5th lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 13 | 4.0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 623 | 14th lowest of 15 · 344% of median | 83 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 369 | 12th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 47 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 984 | 15th lowest of 15 · 544% of median | 159 | 4.0 |
| 2007 | 93 | 6th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 26 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 184 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 39 | 2.7 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 181 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 29 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 449 | 13th lowest of 15 · 248% of median | 73 | 4.0 |
| 2016 | 238 | 10th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 53 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 324 | 11th lowest of 15 · 179% of median | 63 | 3.5 |
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