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GOLD RUN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6000611 · 1 · ALDER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1889-05-01 — 87th 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: BARRY NO1 DITCH (1889-04-15). Immediately behind: SOUTH ALDER CREEK DITCH (1889-09-03).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14366.0 | 1889-05-01 | 1911-06-03 | 7.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 26 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 289 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 253 AF — 88% of that, and 7th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 346 | 10th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 79 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 493 | 15th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 90 | 5.2 |
| 2012 | 194 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 112 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 466 | 14th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 165 | 2.5 |
| 2014 | 395 | 12th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 90 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 289 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 54 | 4.2 |
| 2016 | 200 | 6th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 83 | 2.4 |
| 2017 | 418 | 13th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 88 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 77 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 382 | 11th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 97 | 3.3 |
| 2020 | 147 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 106 | 1.6 |
| 2021 | 187 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 163 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 295 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 148 | 2.2 |
| 2023 | 189 | 4th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 118 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 253 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 157 | 1.9 |
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