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Structure dossier · WDID 5801933 · 1 · MORRISON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:18 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 2000-05-01 — 2425th most senior of the 3097 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: PINNACLE PEAK POND ALT C (2000-03-31). Immediately behind: CORRAL CREEK RESERVOIR (2000-07-08).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54908.0 | 2000-05-01 | 2000-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 46 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 66 AF — 144% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 15 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 33% of median | 32 | 0.2 |
| 2004 | 50 | 5th lowest of 8 · 109% of median | 62 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 92 | 8th lowest of 8 · 200% of median | 161 | 0.8 |
| 2021 | 10 | 1st lowest of 8 · 22% of median | 34 | 0.2 |
| 2022 | 42 | 4th lowest of 8 · 91% of median | 71 | 0.7 |
| 2023 | 12 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 26% of median | 26 | 0.2 |
| 2024 | 91 | 7th lowest of 8 · 198% of median | 76 | 0.7 |
| 2025 | 66 | 6th lowest of 8 · 144% of median | 39 | 1.1 |
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