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MCPHEE RESERVOIR INLET
Structure dossier · WDID 7100569 · 3 · DOLORES RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:38 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — 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 1940-09-10 — 90th most senior of the 279 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: CAHONE RESERVOIR INLET (1940-09-10). Immediately behind: MONUMENT CREEK RES INLET (1940-09-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33125.0 | 1940-09-10 | 1963-03-22 | 585.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMSTKOTH | 62-18R |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 85,897 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 32,783 AF — 38% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 77,199 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 366 | 1238.0 |
| 1997 | 172,449 | 14th lowest of 15 · 201% of median | 361 | 2335.0 |
| 1998 | 71,610 | 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 197 | 1874.5 |
| 1999 | 139,414 | 12th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 216 | 2471.0 |
| 2000 | 60,697 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 185 | 1127.0 |
| 2001 | 122,434 | 11th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 168 | 2048.0 |
| 2002 | 18,119 | 1st lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 165 | 528.1 |
| 2003 | 94,623 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 180 | 1420.0 |
| 2004 | 144,743 | 13th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 146 | 2210.2 |
| 2005 | 189,360 | 15th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 177 | 3358.0 |
| 2006 | 85,897 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 170 | 2221.8 |
| 2007 | 31,156 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 365 | 594.1 |
| 2008 | 106,831 | 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 274 | 1652.6 |
| 2009 | 29,787 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 365 | 1912.6 |
| 2010 | 32,783 | 4th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 304 | 1058.8 |
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