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GOMEZ DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1600577 · 1 · CUCHARAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 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
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 1868-06-08 — 51st most senior of the 1044 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: OSO DITCH (1868-05-03). Immediately behind: LAKE MIRIAM RESERVOIR (1868-06-08).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6734.0 | 1868-06-08 | 1889-06-12 | 3.2 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNAUG | 10 |
| 14408.1398 | 1888-04-10 | 1898-02-23 | 7.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNAUG | 124 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 604 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 9 AF — 2% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
| 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 | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 121 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 124 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 606 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 230 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 140 | 4th lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 105 | 3.3 |
| 2014 | 874 | 14th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 265 | 3.8 |
| 2015 | 722 | 12th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 187 | 8.2 |
| 2016 | 718 | 11th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 207 | 10.2 |
| 2017 | 1,213 | 15th lowest of 15 · 201% of median | 259 | 21.5 |
| 2018 | 214 | 5th lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 179 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 604 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 311 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 267 | 6th lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 273 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 481 | 7th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 365 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 767 | 13th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 347 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 672 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 311 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 309 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 272 | 0.5 |
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.