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GOULD DITCH - BRIDGER CREEK
Structure dossier · WDID 4700641 · 1 · BRIDGER 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 (a1c9146) — 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 1890-10-01 — 234th most senior of the 1262 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: WALES DITCH (1890-09-30). Immediately behind: HANSON WELL PROJECT (1890-10-15).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14884.0 | 1890-10-01 | 1908-07-01 | 7.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 238 |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 282 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 214 AF — 76% of that, and 6th lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 52 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 18% of median | 7 | 4.5 |
| 2005 | 477 | 11th lowest of 12 · 169% of median | 68 | 8.0 |
| 2006 | 351 | 7th lowest of 12 · 124% of median | 58 | 6.0 |
| 2007 | 362 | 9th lowest of 12 · 128% of median | 41 | 8.5 |
| 2008 | 995 | 12th lowest of 12 · 352% of median | 71 | 19.9 |
| 2014 | 379 | 10th lowest of 12 · 134% of median | 43 | 5.1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 361 | 8th lowest of 12 · 128% of median | 29 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 15 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 5% of median | 18 | 0.4 |
| 2020 | 207 | 5th lowest of 12 · 73% of median | 26 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 191 | 4th lowest of 12 · 68% of median | 23 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 214 | 6th lowest of 12 · 76% of median | 38 | 2.9 |
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