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GERALD VERHOEFF RESERVOIR
Structure dossier · WDID 6703599 · 3 · LUBERS DRAINAGE DITCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:53 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 1945-05-01 — 453rd most senior of the 2116 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: GERALD VERHOEFF DITCH (1945-05-01). Immediately behind: LAMAR WELL NO 4 (1945-08-21).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35301.34819 | 1945-05-01 | 1959-04-21 | 229.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRDOM | 103 |
| 58804.4141 | 1963-05-18 | 2011-12-31 | 80.0 | 0.0 | A | STOIRRRECFISSTKWLD |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 805 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2017, came in at 1,149 AF — 143% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 3 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 177 | 1st lowest of 3 · 22% of median | — | 57 | 5.6 |
| 2016 | 805 | 2nd lowest of 3 · 100% of median | — | 159 | 66.6 |
| 2017 | 1,149 | 3rd lowest of 3 · 143% of median | 118 | 247 | 24.2 |
| 2018 | — | no recorded volume | 970 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | — | no recorded volume | 284 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | — | no recorded volume | 816 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | — | no recorded volume | 572 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | — | no recorded volume | 643 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | — | no recorded volume | 948 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | — | no recorded volume | 585 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | — | no recorded volume | 518 | 0 | — |
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.