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GOOD FRIEND DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800713 · 1 · SOPRIS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:17 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 in line
Priority 1887-05-25 — 222nd most senior of the 4788 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: SNOWMASS CREEK PIPELINE (1887-05-15). Immediately behind: GRANGE AND CERISE DITCH (1887-05-27).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13659.0 | 1887-05-25 | 1889-05-11 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 178 |
| 30941.26418 | 1922-05-01 | 1936-08-25 | 2.28 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 414R |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 127 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 127 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 127 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 76 | 0.9 |
| 2010 | 37 | 5th lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 51 | 0.4 |
| 2012 | 34 | 4th lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 14 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 155 | 12th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 42 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 158 | 13th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 58 | 1.5 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 131 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 52 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 28 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 19 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 95 | 7th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 36 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 160 | 14th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 57 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 52 | 6th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 22 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 141 | 11th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 64 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 32 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 27 | 0.6 |
| 2023 | 167 | 15th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 42 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 127 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 82 | 0.8 |
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