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DEER CK & MORAPOS D
Structure dossier · WDID 4400590 · 1 · MORAPOS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:35 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 1887-05-12 — 36th most senior of the 3562 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: SMITH DITCH (1886-12-06). Immediately behind: PIKE DITCH (1887-05-12).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13646.0 | 1887-05-12 | 1894-09-22 | 5.83 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 25 |
| 19250.17055 | 1896-09-10 | 1902-09-18 | 0.67 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 80 |
| 36295.23496 | 1914-05-01 | 1960-09-01 | 13.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 30 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA1278, 90CW0047, 09/22/1894.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1278 | 1 | 1960-09-01 | S |
90CW0047 | 1 | 1902-09-18 | S |
09/22/1894 | 2 | 1894-09-22 | O |
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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 733 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,112 AF — 152% of that, and 12th 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 | 1,818 | 15th lowest of 15 · 248% of median | 62 | 19.5 |
| 2012 | 236 | 4th lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 43 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 815 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 75 | 12.1 |
| 2014 | 1,240 | 13th lowest of 15 · 169% of median | 94 | 12.9 |
| 2015 | 460 | 6th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 120 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 1,300 | 14th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 102 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 721 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 31 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 147 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 83 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 733 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 97 | 5.3 |
| 2020 | 264 | 5th lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 38 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 146 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 79 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 1,046 | 11th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 57 | 11.4 |
| 2023 | 823 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 151 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 1,112 | 12th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 56 | 11.6 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 8021 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 40% of the irrigation seasons in 1932-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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