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GOODWIN KNOX DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5900564 · 1 · GUNNISON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:03 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 1894-06-01 — 178th most senior of the 2360 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: GIERHARDT DOMESTIC WELL (1894-05-01). Immediately behind: ANNIE IRG DITCH (1894-06-11).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16223.0 | 1894-06-01 | 1906-09-14 | 0.0149 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 102 |
| 30667.12571 | 1884-06-01 | 1941-04-29 | 0.375 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNREC | 314 |
| 37755.0 | 1953-05-15 | 1957-06-20 | 10.967 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 511 |
Legal record & documents
20 decreed actions on record across
7 court cases:
CA5289, 81CW0046, W2320, W2319, W2128, W3523, 80CW0376.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA5289 | 1 | 1957-06-20 | S |
81CW0046 | 1 | 1957-06-20 | S |
W2320 | 6 | 1941-04-29 | O, S |
W2319 | 6 | 1941-04-29 | O, S |
W2128 | 3 | 1941-04-29 | O, S |
W3523 | 1 | 1906-09-14 | O |
80CW0376 | 2 | 1906-09-14 | O |
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 1,245 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,053 AF — 85% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,685 | 13th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 176 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 1,878 | 14th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 182 | 11.1 |
| 2013 | 1,333 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 190 | 9.3 |
| 2014 | 1,896 | 15th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 191 | 7.8 |
| 2015 | 1,072 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 176 | 5.7 |
| 2016 | 1,245 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 153 | 6.9 |
| 2017 | 876 | 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 177 | 4.7 |
| 2018 | 520 | 1st lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 182 | 5.4 |
| 2019 | 1,488 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 176 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 1,298 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 126 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 739 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 169 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 884 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 182 | 5.4 |
| 2023 | 689 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 147 | 6.1 |
| 2024 | 1,592 | 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 177 | 14.5 |
| 2025 | 1,053 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 101 | 8.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 8576 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 79% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2025 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.