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VIDLER TUNNEL

Structure dossier · WDID 0704626 · OTHER · LEAVENWORTH CREEK · DWR record

Vidler Tunnel is a water structure on Leavenworth Creek in Colorado. This page is its public record: the water it has a right to, whether it may take it today, and its history, compiled from the Colorado Division of Water Resources.

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR structure ↗ Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR diversion records ↗ Source Our computation, scored against a reference · scored against DWR's call analysis, see /methods

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-10-15 15:36 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260928 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (c7f5ca1) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

The record and the river

This is water crossing the divide

Vidler Tunnel is the receiving end of the Vidler Tunnel (tunnel). It takes water from Peru Creek, Snake River basin (Div 5) and delivers it to Clear Creek headwaters near Argentine Pass (Div 1). Water arriving here is an import: it was never in this basin’s own runoff.

The other end: Vidler Tunnel West Portal 3604626

Metered as a facility: VIDTUNCO, VIDLERCO — the record for the crossing itself, which may run longer than the record for either structure.

From the site’s hand-curated register of transbasin facilities. Every crossing on one page →

In short

In a median year over its last 15 recorded years it diverts 412 acre-feet.

Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (2 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.

Download this structure

Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.

⇩ Full record (.zip) Print / save as PDF

Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv

What is in the bundle
  • rights.csv — every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.
  • annual_use.csv — recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.
  • curtailment_now.csv — each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.
  • court_cases.csv — the cases attached to its rights.
  • co_parties.csv — the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.
  • call_climatology.csv — how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.
  • README.txt — provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.

Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (other). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.

Which of its rights are out of priority?

The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: no decreed right on file, so there is no priority to test.

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 412 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 336 AF — 82% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.

YearDiverted (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 recordReleased (AF)Days recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 400 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 400 73 8.8
2012 441 11th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 441 72 6.0
2013 419 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 419 32 11.0
2014 628 13th lowest of 15 · 152% of median 628 43 12.2
2015 667 14th lowest of 15 · 162% of median 667 72 13.0
2016 417 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median 417 22 15.9
2017 337 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 337 30 8.3
2018 263 2nd lowest of 15 · 64% of median 263 62 5.8
2019 533 12th lowest of 15 · 129% of median 533 38 10.3
2020 412 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 412 48 8.1
2021 18 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median 18 4 4.4
2022 399 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 399 153 8.8
2023 695 15th lowest of 15 · 169% of median 695 176 10.3
2024 285 3rd lowest of 15 · 69% of median 285 237 9.4
2025 336 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 336 304 6.4

How good is our record of it?

Grade C (5/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.

The rubric, component by component
CheckStateDetail
identity complete name, type, and water source all on file
decreed rights absent no water rights cached for this WDID
diversion record present 4024 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against)
record continuity sparse 39% of the irrigation seasons in 1977-2025 carry measured days
published-record stability stable no upstream revisions recorded against this structure

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.

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