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GRAHAM & BENNETT D
Structure dossier · WDID 5800662 · 1 · ELK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:53 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.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1888-05-01 — 62nd most senior of the 3097 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: EGERIA DITCH (1888-05-01). Immediately behind: HERNAGE & KOLBE DITCH (1888-05-02).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14001.0 | 1888-05-01 | 1892-09-22 | 5.3 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | (47)48 |
| 19622.18767 | 1901-05-20 | 1903-09-28 | 3.33 | 0.83 | C | IRR | 159A |
| 33782.21336 | 1908-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 9.36 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 199-A, 298 |
| 49474.0 | 1985-06-15 | 1985-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | STORECFISFIRSTK | |
| 57343.51012 | 1989-08-31 | 2007-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | OTH |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,152 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 2,855 AF — 248% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 751 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 175 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 673 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 102 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 1,447 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 145 | 13.3 |
| 2015 | 1,152 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 213 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 1,178 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 280 | 16.0 |
| 2017 | 1,644 | 13th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 126 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 1,449 | 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 239 | 11.5 |
| 2019 | 1,127 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 209 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 973 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 68 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 1,217 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 98 | 13.6 |
| 2022 | 862 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 81 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 1,151 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 155 | 18.6 |
| 2024 | 2,315 | 14th lowest of 15 · 201% of median | 105 | 20.5 |
| 2025 | 2,855 | 15th lowest of 15 · 248% of median | 161 | 19.9 |
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