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MCCURRY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200774 · 1 · HAWXHURST CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:42 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.
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 1922-07-01 — 455th most senior of the 2166 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: BLOWOUT DITCH (1921-12-20). Immediately behind: LOST LAKE RESERVOIR (1922-08-17).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30895.26479 | 1922-07-01 | 1941-07-25 | 2.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 32811.0 | 1939-11-01 | 1941-07-25 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 51499.2934 | 1930-05-01 | 1991-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 228 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 228 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 350 | 13th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 287 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 404 | 15th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 192 | 2.7 |
| 2012 | 343 | 12th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 200 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 64 | 1st lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 81 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 166 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 64 | 1.6 |
| 2015 | 87 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 55 | 1.4 |
| 2016 | 118 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 22 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 164 | 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 220 | 0.7 |
| 2018 | 292 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 159 | 3.3 |
| 2019 | 260 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 111 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 234 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 64 | 2.6 |
| 2021 | 190 | 7th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 66 | 2.4 |
| 2022 | 356 | 14th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 74 | 2.6 |
| 2023 | 118 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 83 | 0.9 |
| 2024 | 228 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 85 | 2.2 |
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