Description: AdjudicationAreas is a polygon feature class that represents General Water Rights Adjudications. The water rights adjudication process helps to bring order and certainty to the water rights record throughout the state by defining existing rights, quantifying unknown rights, and removing unused and abandoned rights from the record through judicial decree. Under the direction of the district court, the State Engineer provides notice to all potential water right claimants to submit claims, publishes and files a List of Unclaimed Rights with the district court, evaluates filed water user’s claims, prepares a hydrographic survey map, and then prepares and files a Proposed Determination of water rights in the district court. Water users have the opportunity to contest the List of Unclaimed Rights and the Proposed Determination by filing an objection with the district court. Objections must be resolved before the court can render a decree on either the List of Unclaimed Rights or the Proposed Determination.All of the hydrologic areas within the State of Utah are currently involved in a court-ordered adjudication of water rights except the Weber River, Sevier River, and Green River drainages. The water rights on the Sevier and Weber Rivers were adjudicated and decreed in the 1920's and 1930's. The adjudications in most of the other areas of the state were started in the 1950's through the early 1970's.