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BANNISTER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1000744 · 1 · FOUNTAIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:38 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 1866-09-21 — 58th most senior of the 2864 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: IRVINE DITCH (1866-04-01). Immediately behind: BANNISTER SUMP WELL (1866-09-21).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6108.0 | 1866-09-21 | 1896-03-23 | 2.56 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 657 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1976, came in at 212 AF — 32% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 91 | 1st lowest of 13 · 14% of median | 61 | 1.0 |
| 1965 | 774 | 10th lowest of 13 · 118% of median | 268 | 1.6 |
| 1966 | 771 | 9th lowest of 13 · 117% of median | 245 | 1.6 |
| 1967 | 1,136 | 13th lowest of 13 · 173% of median | 335 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 870 | 12th lowest of 13 · 132% of median | 275 | 1.6 |
| 1969 | 852 | 11th lowest of 13 · 130% of median | 228 | 2.0 |
| 1970 | 657 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 203 | 2.0 |
| 1971 | 422 | 5th lowest of 13 · 64% of median | 195 | 1.6 |
| 1972 | 368 | 4th lowest of 13 · 56% of median | 366 | 1.6 |
| 1973 | 511 | 6th lowest of 13 · 78% of median | 221 | 1.6 |
| 1974 | 194 | 2nd lowest of 13 · 30% of median | 61 | 1.6 |
| 1975 | 671 | 8th lowest of 13 · 102% of median | 319 | 1.6 |
| 1976 | 212 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 32% of median | 245 | 0.6 |
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