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GOLDMAN DITCH PUMP & PL
Structure dossier · WDID 4500845 · 8 · COLORADO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:09 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 1880-04-01 — 1st most senior of the 1378 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 behind: MOORE DITCH (1881-06-10).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11049.0 | 1880-04-01 | 1906-08-11 | 7.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 12935.0 | 1885-05-31 | 1906-08-11 | 1.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 13228.0 | 1886-03-20 | 1906-08-11 | 5.225 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 22494.20605 | 1906-06-01 | 1915-03-20 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 34762.23131 | 1913-05-01 | 1964-08-05 | 80.09 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 45798.0 | 1975-05-23 | 1975-12-31 | 7.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
10 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
W2759, 96CW0126.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W2759 | 2 | 1975-12-31 | S |
96CW0126 | 8 | 1964-09-05 | O, S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 278 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 256 AF — 92% of that, and 5th lowest of the 13 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 32 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 12% of median | — | 5 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | — | no recorded volume | 0 | 0 | — |
| 1990 | — | no recorded volume | 0 | 0 | — |
| 1994 | 173 | 4th lowest of 13 · 62% of median | — | 16 | 6.2 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 492 | 9th lowest of 13 · 177% of median | — | 63 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 607 | 12th lowest of 13 · 218% of median | — | 69 | 4.5 |
| 2002 | 589 | 11th lowest of 13 · 212% of median | — | 67 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 888 | 13th lowest of 13 · 319% of median | — | 98 | 4.8 |
| 2017 | 278 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | — | 21 | 7.0 |
| 2020 | 559 | 10th lowest of 13 · 201% of median | — | 48 | 6.0 |
| 2022 | 274 | 6th lowest of 13 · 99% of median | — | 40 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 339 | 8th lowest of 13 · 122% of median | — | 56 | 6.0 |
| 2024 | 256 | 5th lowest of 13 · 92% of median | — | 35 | 4.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 13 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 6 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 822 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 8% of the irrigation seasons in 1977-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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.