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VON SPRINGS RESERVOIR 1
Structure dossier · WDID 3803751 · 3 · EAST COULTER 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 1898-07-15 — 381st most senior of the 4788 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: JOUFLAS DITCH HGT 1 (1894-05-15). Immediately behind: WATERS RESERVOIR (1906-06-15).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24430.17728 | 1898-07-15 | 1917-03-16 | 10.89 | 0.0 | A | IRR | RES8A |
| 36396.17728 | 1898-07-15 | 1952-10-24 | 10.89 | 0.0 | A | IRRDOM | 499 |
| 36396.31303 | 1935-09-15 | 1952-10-24 | 24.3 | 0.0 | A | IRRDOM | 545 |
Recorded use (last 3 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 158 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1995, came in at 15 AF — 10% of that, and 1st lowest of the 2 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 301 | 2nd lowest of 2 · 190% of median | — | 112 | 1.5 |
| 1995 | 15 | 1st lowest of 2 · 10% of median | — | 11 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | — | no recorded volume | 22 | 0 | — |
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