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VEGA RESERVOIR
Structure dossier · WDID 7203844 · 3 · PLATEAU CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:13 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1952-08-19 — 696th most senior of the 2166 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: SOUTHSIDE CANAL (1952-08-19). Immediately behind: VEGA RES(BIG CREEK RES POOL) (1952-08-19).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37486.0 | 1952-08-19 | 1959-07-21 | 33500.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRPWR |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA8303.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA8303 | 2 | 1959-07-21 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 19,199 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2012, came in at 19,199 AF — 100% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,639 | 1st lowest of 3 · 8% of median | 0 | 61 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 25,567 | 3rd lowest of 3 · 133% of median | 8,168 | 365 | 567.1 |
| 2012 | 19,199 | 2nd lowest of 3 · 100% of median | 29,432 | 305 | 439.6 |
| 2013 | — | no recorded volume | 24,668 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | — | no recorded volume | 26,856 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | — | no recorded volume | 24,742 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | — | no recorded volume | 23,625 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | — | no recorded volume | 22,338 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | — | no recorded volume | 20,960 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | — | no recorded volume | 20,688 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | — | no recorded volume | 27,781 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | — | no recorded volume | 14,296 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | — | no recorded volume | 25,143 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | — | no recorded volume | 18,402 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | — | no recorded volume | 20,998 | 0 | — |
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 5843 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 91% of the irrigation seasons in 1994-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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