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Structure dossier · WDID 5104679 · PIPELINE · WILLIAMS FORK · DWR record
Vasquez Tunnel is a pipeline on Williams Fork in Colorado. This page is its public record: the water it has a right to, whether it may take it today, and its history, compiled from the Colorado Division of Water Resources.
Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR structure ↗ Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR diversion records ↗ Source Our computation, scored against a reference · scored against DWR's call analysis, see /methods
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-10-14 15:20 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260928 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (dd58e60) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Who owns it
- Denver Water — from Hydrohistorian's hand-curated transbasin register.
DWR’s own records name no owner for a ditch, reservoir or well, so this comes from the source shown and can be out of date. Organisations only: a private landowner’s name is never listed.
The record and the river
This is water crossing the divide
Vasquez Tunnel is the receiving end of the Vasquez Tunnel (tunnel). It takes water from West Fork Clear Creek (Div 1) and delivers it to Vasquez Creek, Fraser basin (Div 5). Water arriving here is an import: it was never in this basin’s own runoff.
Owner / operator: Denver Water
From the site’s hand-curated register of transbasin facilities. Every crossing on one page →
What DWR has on file
DWR lists this structure as PIPELINE on WILLIAMS FORK. Beyond that identity, no decreed water rights and no diversion records are on file for it.
That is a statement about the public record, not about the structure: a well group, an augmentation plan component or a recently inventoried structure can be real and administered while carrying no separate decree and reporting no diversions of its own. The DWR record for 5104679 is the authority.
Download this structure
Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.
⇩ Full record (.zip) Print / save as PDF
Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv
What is in the bundle
rights.csv— every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.annual_use.csv— recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.curtailment_now.csv— each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.court_cases.csv— the cases attached to its rights.co_parties.csv— the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.call_climatology.csv— how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.README.txt— provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it (diversion). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: no decreed right on file, so there is no priority to test.
Legal record & documents
No court-case record is cached for this structure.
1 imaged document on DWR’s shelf for this structure. Every row opens the scanned PDF at DWR. Listing as of 2026-09-22.
Maps (1)
| Date | Title | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-01-11 | VASQUEZ RESERVOIR AMENDED AND ENLARGED | 1 | open ↗ |
Imaged documents at DWR. DWR keeps the scanned documents for this structure — decrees, rulings, plats, correspondence — in its Laserfiche archive. Open the list directly: imaged documents for 5104679 ↗ (indexed by structure, not by case — the case numbers on its rights appear within the list).
Other DWR records for this structure: DWR’s page for this structure ↗ — net amounts, water rights, transactions & adjudication history, and diversion records, all on that one page. On this site: the district’s full legal picture →
How good is our record of it?
Grade C (4/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | absent | no water rights cached for this WDID |
| diversion record | absent | no diversion records cached |
| record continuity | unknown | no record span to measure against |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.
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