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MCCANDLISS FEEDER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5101410 · 1 · SKYLARK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:59 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.
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 1998-10-16 — 1676th 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: DIBELLO WELL NO 1 DEPLETION REACH (1998-10-14). Immediately behind: MINIAT RESERVOIR NO 1 (1998-10-16).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54345.0 | 1998-10-16 | 1998-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRRECFISAUGWLD |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
98CW0293, 98CW0292, 22CW3085, 17CW3129.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
98CW0293 | 1 | 1998-12-31 | S |
98CW0292 | 2 | 1998-12-31 | S |
22CW3085 | 1 | 1998-12-31 | S |
17CW3129 | 2 | 1998-12-31 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 7 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 142 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 156 AF — 110% of that, and 6th lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 163 | 7th lowest of 7 · 115% of median | 57 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 142 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 56 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 107 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 75% of median | 47 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 135 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 95% of median | 64 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 65 | 1st lowest of 7 · 46% of median | 52 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 145 | 5th lowest of 7 · 102% of median | 72 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 156 | 6th lowest of 7 · 110% of median | 55 | 4.0 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 403 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 23% of the irrigation seasons in 2016-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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