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BENNETT GULCH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000955 · 1 · JAY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:49 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 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 1906-06-30 — 1406th most senior of the 4661 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: BUCK CANON DITCH (1906-05-13). Immediately behind: VANMETER DITCH (1907-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25807.20634 | 1906-06-30 | 1930-02-10 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | G46 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 12 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 12 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 62 | 0.1 |
| 1995 | 11 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 114 | 0.1 |
| 1996 | 38 | 14th lowest of 15 · 317% of median | 169 | 0.2 |
| 1997 | 26 | 12th lowest of 15 · 217% of median | 176 | 0.1 |
| 1998 | 44 | 15th lowest of 15 · 367% of median | 111 | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 22 | 10th lowest of 15 · 183% of median | 111 | 0.1 |
| 2000 | 14 | 9th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 109 | 0.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | 6th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 37 | 0.1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 27 | 13th lowest of 15 · 225% of median | 86 | 0.2 |
| 2011 | 25 | 11th lowest of 15 · 208% of median | 114 | 0.2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
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