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BENNER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4400857 · 1 · BENNER GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:35 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1938-08-01 — 600th most senior of the 3562 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: BAKER COTTONWOOD D (1938-05-01). Immediately behind: BAILEY DITCH - ENLARGEMENT (1941-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40421.32354 | 1938-08-01 | 1972-05-30 | 5.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 13 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 80 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1 AF — 1% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 80 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 97 | 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 45 | 1.5 |
| 2005 | 102 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 60 | 1.5 |
| 2006 | 82 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 41 | 1.5 |
| 2007 | 63 | 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 33 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 139 | 12th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 43 | 5.0 |
| 2009 | 292 | 14th lowest of 15 · 365% of median | 57 | 5.0 |
| 2010 | 236 | 13th lowest of 15 · 295% of median | 53 | 5.0 |
| 2011 | 494 | 15th lowest of 15 · 618% of median | 62 | 5.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | 4th lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 8 | 0.5 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 24 | 0.1 |
| 2022 | 16 | 5th lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 9 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 72 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 44 | 1.0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 45 | 0.0 |
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