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BENNETT MORTON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800513 · 1 · HOT SPRINGS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 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 1878-05-30 — 47th most senior of the 1505 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: KENNEDY DITCH NO 3 (1878-05-01). Immediately behind: HARRIS DITCH (1878-05-31).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16192.10377 | 1878-05-30 | 1904-04-29 | 0.88 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 37 |
| 16192.13659 | 1887-05-25 | 1904-04-29 | 0.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 92 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 527 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 294 | 6th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 162 | 1.7 |
| 2008 | 567 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 108 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 587 | 11th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 106 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 382 | 7th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 91 | 5.2 |
| 2011 | 527 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 108 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 288 | 5th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 177 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 537 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 176 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 951 | 12th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 157 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 1,243 | 14th lowest of 15 · 236% of median | 202 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 1,007 | 13th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 186 | 7.0 |
| 2017 | 1,823 | 15th lowest of 15 · 346% of median | 194 | 12.5 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
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