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PEDRO GOMEZ DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7900524 · 1 · HUERFANO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:04 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 1865-06-01 — 8th most senior of the 930 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: WM CRAIG DITCH APD WELL (1864-05-01). Immediately behind: DAN MAHAN DITCH (1866-04-17).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5631.0 | 1865-06-01 | 1889-06-12 | 0.32 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 10 |
| 7822.0 | 1871-06-01 | 1889-06-12 | 1.22 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 45 |
| 14408.1283 | 1885-02-15 | 1898-02-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 106 |
| 14656.0 | 1890-02-15 | 1898-02-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 147 |
| 18915.16893 | 1896-04-01 | 1921-10-03 | 5.1 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 282 |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA1414, 02/23/1898, 06/12/1889.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1414 | 1 | 1921-10-03 | S |
02/23/1898 | 2 | 1898-02-23 | S |
06/12/1889 | 2 | 1889-06-12 | 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 365 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 263 AF — 72% of that, and 5th 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 | 112 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 81 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 94 | 1st lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 87 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 165 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 179 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 323 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 239 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 365 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 205 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 403 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 204 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 497 | 12th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 108 | 8.0 |
| 2018 | 222 | 4th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 159 | 2.1 |
| 2019 | 715 | 15th lowest of 15 · 196% of median | 227 | 3.6 |
| 2020 | 284 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 167 | 1.8 |
| 2021 | 714 | 14th lowest of 15 · 196% of median | 272 | 4.0 |
| 2022 | 427 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 227 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 432 | 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 240 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 529 | 13th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 257 | 1.3 |
| 2025 | 263 | 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 180 | 1.9 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+27 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.023).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 5 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 9784 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 41% of the irrigation seasons in 1915-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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