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Structure dossier · WDID 6000522 · 1 · MAVERICK DRAW · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:03 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 1903-06-01 — 166th most senior of the 2893 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: MUD LAKE PIPELINE (1902-07-15). Immediately behind: HOUSE FLOOD WASTE (1903-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19509.0 | 1903-06-01 | 1911-06-03 | 0.42 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 105 |
| 46751.19509 | 1903-06-01 | 1978-12-31 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | STK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 48 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 75 AF — 156% of that, and 10th 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 | 93 | 12th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 103 | 1.4 |
| 2011 | 85 | 11th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 157 | 0.9 |
| 2012 | 48 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 55 | 0.8 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 58 | 0.2 |
| 2014 | 48 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 74 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 65 | 9th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 110 | 0.6 |
| 2016 | 98 | 13th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 129 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 14 | 5th lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 47 | 0.4 |
| 2018 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 27 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 113 | 14th lowest of 15 · 235% of median | 105 | 2.0 |
| 2020 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 27 | 0.1 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4th lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 21 | 0.2 |
| 2022 | 16 | 6th lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 37 | 0.4 |
| 2023 | 140 | 15th lowest of 15 · 292% of median | 119 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 75 | 10th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 109 | 2.0 |
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