The Golden Canal and Reservoir Company

The Golden Canal and Reservoir Company, which operates the Welch Ditch, is a subsidiary of The Agricultural Ditch and Reservoir Company. Much of the Welch Ditch Right-of-Way has been sold or conveyed away over the years with the exception of the Daniels Gardens area, located south of West Colfax Avenue and west of Simms Street. The water rights of The Golden Canal and Reservoir Company are diverted from Clear Creek at the Ag Ditch headgate and carried to a pump station facility near Youngfield Street on the north side of West Colfax Avenue. The carried water is pumped out of the Ag Ditch and into the Welch Ditch, located south of West Colfax Avenue, and runs southeasterly to the Simms Steakhouse at West 6th Avenue and Simms Street in Lakewood. An extension of the Welch Ditch, called the Agricultural Reservoir Ditch, is utilized by The Agricultural Ditch and Reservoir Company to carry water to Main, East and Smith Reservoirs for storage. The Agricultural Reservoir Ditch continues underground south of West 6th Avenue for much of its length along the east side of Union Boulevard until it becomes an open earthen ditch south of West Alameda Parkway. The Agricultural Reservoir Ditch continues southerly through the subdivisions west of Kipling Parkway for delivery of water into the reservoirs.