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BENNETT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6300504 · 1 · WEST CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:20 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 1907-01-20 — 210th most senior of the 533 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: PANSY HIGHLINE DITCH (1906-04-15). Immediately behind: JOHN V. WINEY PUMP (1907-01-20).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30079.20838 | 1907-01-20 | 1939-02-11 | 1.18 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 49 |
| 32547.0 | 1939-02-10 | 1939-02-11 | 2.46 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 58804.0 | 2010-12-31 | 2010-12-31 | 0.0 | 1.0 | C | STO |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
10CW0207, W2769, CA4952, 83CW0116.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
10CW0207 | 1 | 2010-12-31 | S |
W2769 | 1 | 1939-02-11 | S |
CA4952 | 2 | 1939-02-11 | S |
83CW0116 | 2 | 1939-02-11 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 137 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 371 | 15th lowest of 15 · 271% of median | 226 | 1.2 |
| 2012 | 213 | 12th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 179 | 1.2 |
| 2013 | 244 | 13th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 155 | 1.2 |
| 2014 | 160 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 197 | 0.7 |
| 2015 | 137 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 215 | 0.4 |
| 2016 | 152 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 212 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 201 | 11th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 241 | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 113 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 119 | 0.9 |
| 2019 | 302 | 14th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 221 | 2.1 |
| 2020 | 135 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 156 | 2.6 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 118 | 6th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 53 | 2.3 |
| 2023 | 41 | 4th lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 31 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 13 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 39 | 0.3 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-17 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.001).
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 12368 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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