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MCKINLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6200672 · 1 · LITTLE CIMARRON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:39 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 get called out?
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 1886-09-01 — 47th most senior of the 1980 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: FOSTER DITCH NO 1 (1886-06-01). Immediately behind: STUMPY DITCH (1886-09-01).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13393.0 | 1886-09-01 | 1904-03-28 | 12.17 | 0.0 | C | IRRMIN | 56 |
| 20393.20218 | 1905-05-10 | 1913-05-08 | 3.125 | 0.0 | C | IRRMIN | 125 |
| 20583.0 | 1906-05-10 | 1913-05-08 | 3.125 | 0.0 | C | IRRMIN | 128 |
| 27585.22766 | 1912-05-01 | 1941-04-21 | 12.58 | 0.0 | C | IRRMIN | 285 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 4,166 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 4,166 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5,228 | 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 159 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 5,170 | 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 195 | 26.6 |
| 2013 | 4,750 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 156 | 24.2 |
| 2014 | 3,813 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 151 | 21.1 |
| 2015 | 5,714 | 14th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 198 | 27.2 |
| 2016 | 5,341 | 13th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 195 | 23.3 |
| 2017 | 6,930 | 15th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 244 | 27.2 |
| 2018 | 4,005 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 305 | 23.6 |
| 2019 | 3,867 | 4th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 148 | 19.4 |
| 2020 | 4,101 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 218 | 19.7 |
| 2021 | 4,760 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 241 | 19.1 |
| 2022 | 3,960 | 5th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 210 | 22.5 |
| 2023 | 3,365 | 1st lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 164 | 21.3 |
| 2024 | 3,479 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 186 | 22.2 |
| 2025 | 4,166 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 201 | 22.5 |
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