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TURQUOISE RESERVOIR

Structure dossier · WDID 1103500 · 3 · LAKE FORK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 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.

Which of its rights get called out?

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 1881-03-10 — 162nd most senior of the 1489 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: ABBOTT PLACER DITCH (1881-03-10). Immediately behind: TWIN LAKES RESERVOIR (1881-03-10).

Decreed rights (32)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
11392.01881-03-101890-06-19 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM 81
11428.01881-04-151890-06-19 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM 86
11443.01881-04-301890-06-19 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM 87
11450.01881-05-071890-06-19 0.00.0 CSTOIRRMUNINDDOM 89
11474.01881-05-311890-06-19 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM 90
11657.01881-11-301890-06-19 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM 95
11803.01882-04-251890-06-19 0.00.0 CSTOIRRMUNINDDOM 109
11808.01882-04-301890-06-19 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM 110
13641.01887-05-071890-06-19 0.00.0 CSTOIRRMUNINDDOM 159
22561.052961864-07-011912-03-18 3.00.0 CMUNINDALL NI16
22561.191131902-05-011912-03-18 17416.00.0 AMUNINDALL NIR4
33950.191131902-05-011969-07-09 0.010238.0 AIRRMUNDOM A55-C
33950.297011931-04-271969-07-09 3900.06338.0 AIRRMUNDOM A55-C
33950.297011931-04-271969-07-09 0.0400.0 CIRRMUNDOM A55-C
33950.325471939-02-101969-07-09 129432.0258864.0 AALL A92-C
33951.155241892-07-021969-07-09 0.03120.0 AIRRFISALL A28-C
38164.01954-06-281984-12-31 0.00.0 CMUNALL
38311.01954-11-221984-12-31 0.00.0 CMUNALL
46159.01976-05-181984-12-31 0.00.0 CMUN
48942.381641954-06-281984-12-31 0.00.0 CMUNALL
48942.461591976-05-181984-12-31 0.00.0 CMUN
48942.479511981-04-141984-12-31 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDDOM
48942.481751981-11-241984-12-31 0.00.0 AALL
48942.481751981-11-241984-12-31 0.00.0 CALL
49673.493871985-03-201986-12-31 0.00.0 CALL
50393.01987-12-211987-12-31 0.00.0 CALL
55152.551332000-12-122001-12-31 0.00.0 CSTOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG
55482.02001-11-262001-12-31 0.00.0 CMUN
55867.02002-12-162002-12-31 0.00.0 CMUN
56970.02005-12-232005-12-31 0.00.0 CALL
58220.02009-05-262009-12-31 0.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM
58804.493871985-03-202011-12-31 0.00.0 CALL

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,909 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 2,610 AF — 137% of that, and 9th 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)
1971 825 6th lowest of 15 · 43% of median — 62 30.0
1992 1 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median — 2 0.4
1993 239 5th lowest of 15 · 12% of median — 63 5.0
1994 149 3rd lowest of 15 · 8% of median — 37 2.2
2013 1,909 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 1,909 59 54.7
2014 99 2nd lowest of 15 · 5% of median 2,557 153 4.5
2015 214 4th lowest of 15 · 11% of median 119 122 6.9
2016 1,037 7th lowest of 15 · 54% of median 92 211 16.7
2017 73,269 14th lowest of 15 · 3838% of median 42 365 1007.5
2018 42,043 12th lowest of 15 · 2202% of median 82 365 772.2
2019 100,978 15th lowest of 15 · 5290% of median 125 365 999.6
2020 54,046 13th lowest of 15 · 2831% of median 62 366 916.6
2021 35,867 10th lowest of 15 · 1879% of median — 365 803.5
2022 36,869 11th lowest of 15 · 1931% of median — 304 810.1
2023 2,610 9th lowest of 15 · 137% of median — 214 39.2

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