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FRASER RIVER DIVERSION PROJECT - VASQUEZ
Structure dossier · WDID 5101310 · 1 · VASQUEZ CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:17 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 1921-07-04 — 403rd 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: FRASER RIVER DIVERSION PROJECT - ST LOUI (1921-07-04). Immediately behind: FRASER RIVER DIVERSION PROJECT - FAUN CR (1921-07-04).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30870.26117 | 1921-07-04 | 1937-11-05 | 175.0 | 100.0 | C | MUNFIRDOM | |
| 52067.0 | 1992-07-21 | 1992-12-31 | 0.0 | 846.0 | A | IRRMUNDOMAUG | |
| 52067.0 | 1992-07-21 | 1992-12-31 | 0.0 | 8.0 | C | IRRMUNDOMAUG | |
| 58804.4956 | 1985-09-09 | 2011-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRMUNFIRDOM | |
| 58804.4956 | 1985-09-09 | 2011-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNFIRDOM | |
| 58804.58705 | 2010-09-23 | 2011-12-31 | 0.0 | 1775.0 | A | STOIRRMUNCOMRECFISFIRDOMAUGSNO |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 8,148 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 7,864 AF — 96% of that, and 6th lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 135 | 1st lowest of 12 · 2% of median | 135 | 48 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 477 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 6% of median | 477 | 150 | 2.1 |
| 2015 | 588 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 7% of median | 588 | 190 | 1.9 |
| 2016 | 1,003 | 5th lowest of 12 · 12% of median | 307 | 153 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 13,730 | 11th lowest of 12 · 168% of median | — | 365 | 146.0 |
| 2018 | 12,549 | 8th lowest of 12 · 154% of median | — | 365 | 190.8 |
| 2019 | 13,683 | 10th lowest of 12 · 168% of median | — | 365 | 157.2 |
| 2020 | 18,828 | 12th lowest of 12 · 231% of median | — | 305 | 174.0 |
| 2021 | 624 | 4th lowest of 12 · 8% of median | — | 61 | 9.5 |
| 2022 | 12,967 | 9th lowest of 12 · 159% of median | — | 365 | 76.0 |
| 2023 | 8,433 | 7th lowest of 12 · 104% of median | — | 365 | 107.0 |
| 2024 | 7,864 | 6th lowest of 12 · 96% of median | — | 305 | 68.0 |
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