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Structure dossier · WDID 2800937 · 1 · GOLD CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:18 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 1900-07-01 — 970th most senior of the 1505 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: TRACY WELL NO 1 (1898-04-01). Immediately behind: RUBY SPRING PIPELINE (1927-06-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
44925.184441900-07-011973-12-31 2.00.0 CIRRAUG

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 282 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 137 AF — 49% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 334 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 166 2.6
2012 189 2nd lowest of 15 · 67% of median 129 1.8
2013 270 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 117 1.4
2014 363 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median 143 1.6
2015 547 15th lowest of 15 · 194% of median 147 2.4
2016 241 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 74 1.8
2017 259 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 82 1.8
2018 426 13th lowest of 15 · 151% of median 178 1.8
2019 367 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median 150 1.8
2020 396 12th lowest of 15 · 140% of median 171 1.8
2021 222 4th lowest of 15 · 79% of median 128 1.6
2022 480 14th lowest of 15 · 170% of median 151 1.8
2023 282 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 167 1.4
2024 209 3rd lowest of 15 · 74% of median 84 1.6
2025 137 1st lowest of 15 · 49% of median 132 0.6

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.