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MCKINNEY DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 7200779 · 1 · SPRING CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:22 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 1909-07-23 — 240th 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: MASON GULCH DITCH (1908-08-12). Immediately behind: RED MOUNTAIN DITCH (1909-08-15).

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
22995.217531909-07-231916-06-01 1.490.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 157 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 214 AF — 136% of that, and 11th 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)
2010 214 11th lowest of 15 · 136% of median 89 2.0
2011 186 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 82 1.7
2012 52 4th lowest of 15 · 33% of median 32 1.1
2013 108 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median 79 1.3
2014 245 14th lowest of 15 · 156% of median 153 1.6
2015 135 6th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 91 1.3
2016 157 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 102 1.6
2017 187 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median 110 1.8
2018 31 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median 29 0.9
2019 37 3rd lowest of 15 · 24% of median 21 1.4
2020 137 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median 63 1.5
2021 27 1st lowest of 15 · 17% of median 29 0.9
2022 227 13th lowest of 15 · 145% of median 118 1.7
2023 294 15th lowest of 15 · 187% of median 138 2.2
2024 214 11th lowest of 15 · 136% of median 125 2.3

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