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SKAGUAY RESERVIOR
Structure dossier · WDID 1203511 · 3 · BEAVER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:54 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 in line
Priority 1894-05-21 — 318th most senior of the 1967 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: ARK VALLEY RW L & P P/L (1894-05-21). Immediately behind: BURROUGHS MCFARLAND WELL (1895-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16212.0 | 1894-05-21 | 1916-02-14 | 3275.0 | 0.0 | A | RECFISPWRWLD | NI4 |
Recorded use (last 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 7,575 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1935, came in at 7,575 AF — 100% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 5 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 1,651 | 2nd lowest of 5 · 22% of median | — | 61 | 15.3 |
| 1929 | 9,653 | 4th lowest of 5 · 127% of median | — | 335 | 19.4 |
| 1930 | 11,246 | 5th lowest of 5 · 148% of median | — | 304 | 18.6 |
| 1934 | 137 | 1st lowest of 5 · 2% of median | — | 61 | 1.5 |
| 1935 | 7,575 | 3rd lowest of 5 · 100% of median | — | 304 | 19.3 |
| 2018 | — | no recorded volume | 248 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | — | no recorded volume | 172 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | — | no recorded volume | 172 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | — | no recorded volume | 89 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | — | no recorded volume | 172 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | — | no recorded volume | 176 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | — | no recorded volume | 187 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | — | no recorded volume | 0 | 0 | — |
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