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GOLDEN DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 6000608 · 1 · LEOPARD CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 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 1929-01-01 — 1039th most senior of the 2893 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: JENSEN SEEP DITCH (NOR) (1916-07-01). Immediately behind: GOLDSWORTHY DITCH (1930-06-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
44194.288551929-01-011971-12-31 2.00.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 142 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 279 AF — 196% of that, and 13th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2009 15 2nd lowest of 15 · 11% of median 24 1.4
2011 142 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 175 1.0
2012 14 1st lowest of 15 · 10% of median 52 0.2
2013 47 5th lowest of 15 · 33% of median 144 0.3
2014 147 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 140 1.0
2015 450 14th lowest of 15 · 317% of median 147 2.1
2016 635 15th lowest of 15 · 447% of median 172 3.7
2017 250 11th lowest of 15 · 176% of median 136 3.0
2018 55 6th lowest of 15 · 39% of median 74 0.5
2019 44 4th lowest of 15 · 31% of median 68 0.5
2020 36 3rd lowest of 15 · 25% of median 67 0.4
2021 113 7th lowest of 15 · 80% of median 140 1.1
2022 165 10th lowest of 15 · 116% of median 169 0.9
2023 272 12th lowest of 15 · 192% of median 154 2.2
2024 279 13th lowest of 15 · 196% of median 157 3.0

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.