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VEGA RES(COTTNWOOD RES POOL)
Structure dossier · WDID 7204908 · 3 · PLATEAU CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:58 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 — 698th 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: VEGA RES(BIG CREEK RES POOL) (1952-08-19). Immediately behind: PACIFIC OIL CO PL NO 1 (1950-01-07).
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 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | PWR |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA8303.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA8303 | 1 | 1959-07-21 | O |
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)
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | — | no recorded volume | 0 | 0 | — |
| 1995 | — | no recorded volume | 1,411 | 0 | — |
| 1996 | — | no recorded volume | 6,875 | 0 | — |
| 1997 | — | no recorded volume | 5,544 | 0 | — |
| 1998 | — | no recorded volume | 5,544 | 0 | — |
| 1999 | — | no recorded volume | 5,544 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | — | no recorded volume | 6,214 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | — | no recorded volume | 4,951 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | — | no recorded volume | 5,259 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | — | no recorded volume | 5,259 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | — | no recorded volume | 9,625 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | — | no recorded volume | 3,213 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | — | no recorded volume | 4,955 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | — | no recorded volume | 4,678 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | — | no recorded volume | 4,418 | 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 | 5110 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1994-2008 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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