WDID 5305161
Commercial, Recreation, Geothermal · Colorado River · Garfield County, Colorado
Priority date
December 31, 1870
1st most senior of 746 rights on Colorado River in Garfield County
- Owner
- Not in Colorado's decreed-rights data. These rights convey by deed, so ownership is traced through county property records.
- Status
- Absolute
- Record type
- Decreed water right
- Source
- Colorado River
- Kind of source
- Spring
- Name
- Vapor Caves Springs
- Uses
- Commercial, Recreation, Geothermal, Other
- Flow rate
- 0.1 cfs (44.9 gpm)
- County
- Garfield County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 39.54956, -107.32231)
- Structure type
- Spring
- WDID
- 5305161
- Adjudication date
- 1979-12-31
- Administration number
- 47116.07670
- Court case numbers
- 79CW0278
- Water division / district
- 5 / 53
- Absolute amount
- 0.1 cfs
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Colorado River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1 · this right
- #2Apr 1, 1880WDID 4500845Colorado River · Irrigation7.9 cfs
- #3Feb 15, 1883WDID 3900728Colorado River · Industrial, Domestic, Augmentation
- #4May 17, 1883WDID 3900728Colorado River · Industrial, Domestic, Augmentation
- #5May 17, 1883WDID 3900709Colorado River · Irrigation, Industrial, Domestic
From Colorado Division of Water Resources (CDSS), Water Rights Net Amounts + Well Application Permits, fetched October 12, 2026. The state's own record is the authority: amounts, owners and status here can lag behind it, and a mapped point of diversion says nothing about which parcel the right serves. This page is not legal advice.
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