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MCKEEN NO 1 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5300726 · 1 · SWEETWATER CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:21 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 1885-08-15 — 29th most senior of the 1231 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: ED HULL NO 1 DITCH (1885-08-15). Immediately behind: BAILEY MESA DITCH (1886-03-15).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
13011.01885-08-151890-11-20 0.50.0 CIRR 28

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 81 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 64 AF — 79% of that, and 5th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1998 192 15th lowest of 15 · 237% of median 98 1.0
1999 65 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median 67 0.5
2000 40 1st lowest of 15 · 49% of median 41 0.5
2001 62 4th lowest of 15 · 76% of median 64 0.5
2005 57 3rd lowest of 15 · 70% of median 58 0.5
2006 75 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 77 0.5
2007 81 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 83 0.5
2008 133 13th lowest of 15 · 164% of median 92 1.0
2009 126 12th lowest of 15 · 156% of median 128 0.5
2010 90 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 92 0.5
2011 146 14th lowest of 15 · 180% of median 86 1.0
2012 45 2nd lowest of 15 · 56% of median 50 0.5
2016 88 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median 70 0.8
2017 105 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median 99 0.9
2019 64 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median 67 0.6

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