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MCCOY NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5200597 · 1 · SHEEPHORN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:32 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 1887-06-01 — 11th most senior of the 562 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: ANGEHRN DITCH (1887-05-15). Immediately behind: GUTZLER LAKE DITCH (1887-06-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13666.0 | 1887-06-01 | 1890-11-20 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 11 |
| 29437.19875 | 1904-06-01 | 1946-08-30 | 2.95 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 128 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA1038, 11/20/1890.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1038 | 1 | 1946-08-30 | S |
11/20/1890 | 1 | 1890-11-20 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 292 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 275 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 129 | 2.0 |
| 1991 | 421 | 10th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 154 | 3.0 |
| 1992 | 524 | 13th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 113 | 5.1 |
| 1993 | 633 | 15th lowest of 15 · 217% of median | 102 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 292 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 78 | 3.0 |
| 1995 | 513 | 12th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 75 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 528 | 14th lowest of 15 · 181% of median | 78 | 3.5 |
| 1998 | 479 | 11th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 70 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 297 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 72 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 228 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 62 | 2.1 |
| 2017 | 250 | 6th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 55 | 2.6 |
| 2018 | 120 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 84 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 185 | 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 62 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 56 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 65 | 0.4 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-13 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.003).
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2816 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 26% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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