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GOULD DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800714 · 1 · BLUE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:28 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 1881-05-05 — 9th 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: BORAM AND WHITE DITCH (1881-05-05). Immediately behind: FISH PD D & SP 1-4 HGT 3 (1881-05-05).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11448.0 | 1881-05-05 | 1889-05-11 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUGOTH | 8 |
| 11772.0 | 1882-03-25 | 1889-05-11 | 0.2 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUGOTH | 20 |
| 26416.25731 | 1920-06-13 | 1922-06-19 | 0.26 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 234A |
| 47847.33084 | 1940-07-31 | 1981-12-31 | 1.8 | 0.0 | C | STK |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 497 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2001, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 587 | 9th lowest of 11 · 118% of median | 149 | 2.0 |
| 1976 | 544 | 8th lowest of 11 · 110% of median | 184 | 1.5 |
| 1982 | 422 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 85% of median | 143 | 1.5 |
| 1983 | 476 | 5th lowest of 11 · 96% of median | 160 | 1.5 |
| 1984 | 506 | 7th lowest of 11 · 102% of median | 170 | 1.5 |
| 1985 | 497 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 140 | 2.0 |
| 1986 | 690 | 11th lowest of 11 · 139% of median | 175 | 2.0 |
| 1987 | 452 | 4th lowest of 11 · 91% of median | 115 | 2.0 |
| 1988 | 637 | 10th lowest of 11 · 128% of median | 214 | 1.5 |
| 2000 | 283 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 57% of median | 184 | 1.6 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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