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VILLAGE LAKE INLET CANAL
Structure dossier · WDID 5101272 · 1 · FRASER RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:46 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 1977-12-29 — 1059th most senior of the 2208 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: ZASTROW WELL NO 1 (1977-09-21). Immediately behind: VILLAGE LAKE AT WINTER PARK RANCH (1977-12-29).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46749.0 | 1977-12-29 | 1977-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | OTH |
Recorded use (last 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 399 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 181 AF — 45% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 9 years with a recorded volume.
| 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 | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 469 | 7th lowest of 9 · 118% of median | 184 | 1.5 |
| 2007 | 212 | 3rd lowest of 9 · 53% of median | 154 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 399 | 5th lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 202 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 583 | 9th lowest of 9 · 146% of median | 200 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 242 | 4th lowest of 9 · 61% of median | 245 | 0.5 |
| 2018 | 60 | 1st lowest of 9 · 15% of median | 61 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 510 | 8th lowest of 9 · 128% of median | 365 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 414 | 6th lowest of 9 · 104% of median | 305 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 181 | 2nd lowest of 9 · 45% of median | 184 | 0.5 |
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