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GOULDING DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6000613 · 1 · SAN MIGUEL RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 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 1886-10-31 — 20th 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: TELLURIDE WELL TH-1 (1886-06-15). Immediately behind: CARPENTER DITCH (1887-02-01).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13453.0 | 1886-10-31 | 1897-06-11 | 0.65 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 14914.0 | 1890-10-31 | 1897-06-11 | 0.13 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 40 |
| 16010.0 | 1893-10-31 | 1897-06-11 | 0.26 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 61 |
| 19266.0 | 1902-10-01 | 1911-06-03 | 0.43 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 30604.28777 | 1928-10-15 | 1939-11-01 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 315 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 563 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 393 AF — 70% of that, and 2nd 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 | 476 | 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 78 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 563 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 139 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 422 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 165 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 665 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 126 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 777 | 13th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 180 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 683 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 153 | 3.4 |
| 2016 | 749 | 12th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 196 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 510 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 184 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 678 | 10th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 193 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 557 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 186 | 2.3 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 15 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 921 | 15th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 198 | 3.2 |
| 2022 | 864 | 14th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 173 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 486 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 123 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 393 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 111 | 4.0 |
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