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Structure dossier · WDID 6703513 · RESERVOIR · ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record
Queens Reservoir is a reservoir on Arkansas River 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 08:42 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
- Amity Mutual Irr. CO. (private) — as reported to the National Inventory of Dams (USACE) ↗.
DWR’s own records name no owner for a ditch, reservoir or well, so this comes from the source shown and can be out of date.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.
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.
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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 (storage). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Dam safety
| Dam | QUEEN (completed 1896) |
|---|---|
| Hazard class | Significant |
| Condition at last inspection | Satisfactory (2025-04-11) |
| Storage restriction | None on file |
| Normal storage | 21,185 AF |
| Physical status | Active |
| Emergency action plan | Yes |
Source: DWR Dam Safety’s jurisdictional-dam inventory
(damsafety/damsafetydaminfojd), refreshed weekly.
Joined on this structure’s own WDID as DWR
records it on the dam. Hazard class describes the
consequence of failure, not the likelihood of it.
DWR’s dam record.
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.
Water-court filings naming this structure
1 application in the monthly water-court resumes explicitly reference this WDID. The resume is the earliest public notice of a new claim (C.R.S. 37-92-302) — years before anything reaches the decree record below. Most applications name structures by name rather than WDID, so absence here is weak evidence of absence.
| Month | Case | What it asks | Oppose by | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02 | 2019CW3036 |
— | closed 2026-04-30 | CASE NO. 2019CW3036; LOWER ARKANSAS WATER MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (“LAWMA”), c/o Roy Cue, Manager, P. O. Box 1161, Lamar, Colorado 81052 (Please address all pleadings and inquiries regarding this matter to Applicant’s att… |
Source: Judicial Branch combined monthly resumes (archive), indexed nightly; WDIDs attached only when a 7-digit token in the filing matches DWR’s structure inventory.
Recorded use (last 3 years on record)
Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | — | no recorded volume | 536 | 0 | — |
| 1981 | — | no recorded volume | 7,777 | 0 | — |
| 1982 | — | no recorded volume | 389 | 0 | — |
How good is our record of it?
Grade C (5/10 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 | fragment | 141 measured day(s) on file (under 180 -- a season, not a history) |
| record continuity | unknown | record too short to assess continuity (needs 2+ years of span and 180+ measured days) |
| 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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