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MAROON CR PL & DIVR DAM
Structure dossier · WDID 3801156 · 7 · MAROON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:40 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.
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 1965-12-29 — 2645th most senior of the 4788 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: FOLEY DITCH (1948-06-01). Immediately behind: HARDY HILLS WELL (1966-07-25).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47481.42366 | 1965-12-29 | 1980-12-31 | 0.0 | 68.4 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMSTKPWR | |
| 52452.0 | 1993-08-10 | 1993-12-31 | 0.0 | 4.5 | C | IRRMUNINDRECFISFIRDOMSNOOTH |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
93CW0322, 80CW0564.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
93CW0322 | 1 | 1993-12-31 | S |
80CW0564 | 1 | 1980-12-31 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 16,860 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2011, came in at 18,284 AF — 108% of that, and 5th lowest of the 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2,715 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 16% of median | 61 | 26.0 |
| 2000 | 15,435 | 4th lowest of 8 · 92% of median | 305 | 44.0 |
| 2004 | 1,429 | 1st lowest of 8 · 8% of median | 61 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 22,554 | 6th lowest of 8 · 134% of median | 365 | 49.8 |
| 2006 | 24,242 | 8th lowest of 8 · 144% of median | 365 | 51.0 |
| 2007 | 23,705 | 7th lowest of 8 · 141% of median | 304 | 68.4 |
| 2010 | 2,550 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 15% of median | 61 | 26.7 |
| 2011 | 18,284 | 5th lowest of 8 · 108% of median | 304 | 68.4 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 8 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1826 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 71% of the irrigation seasons in 1999-2011 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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