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MCKINLAY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300728 · 1 · EGERIA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:18 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 1914-05-30 — 292nd 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: TWIN SPRINGS DITCH (1913-06-18). Immediately behind: KEEP DITCH (1915-01-11).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33023.23525 | 1914-05-30 | 1956-02-07 | 4.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 306 |
| 41199.23658 | 1914-10-10 | 1967-09-13 | 7.3 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 455 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 79 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 69 AF — 87% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 211 | 14th lowest of 15 · 267% of median | 57 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 520 | 15th lowest of 15 · 658% of median | 69 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 113 | 11th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 50 | 1.5 |
| 1998 | 79 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 52 | 1.4 |
| 1999 | 47 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 45 | 0.6 |
| 2000 | 20 | 1st lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 22 | 0.5 |
| 2001 | 56 | 4th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 36 | 0.8 |
| 2003 | 150 | 13th lowest of 15 · 190% of median | 54 | 1.8 |
| 2004 | 73 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 54 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 93 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 48 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 40 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 35 | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 102 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 69 | 0.8 |
| 2020 | 75 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 52 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 137 | 12th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 50 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 69 | 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 26 | 2.0 |
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