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FORT BENT CANAL
Structure dossier · WDID 6700610 · 1 · ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:16 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 in line
Priority 1886-04-01 — 32nd most senior of the 2116 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: CRUM WELL 19793-F (1885-01-29). Immediately behind: AMITY CANAL (1887-02-21).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13240.0 | 1886-04-01 | 1895-07-01 | 27.77 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 6 |
| 14314.0 | 1889-03-10 | 1895-07-01 | 32.77 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 10 |
| 14499.0 | 1889-09-11 | 1895-07-01 | 11.7 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 12 |
| 14834.0 | 1890-08-12 | 1895-07-01 | 26.27 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 14 |
| 21857.15707 | 1893-01-01 | 1918-10-14 | 50.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 1918-2 |
| 21857.18627 | 1900-12-31 | 1918-10-14 | 80.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 1918-9 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 16,691 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 16,913 AF — 101% of that, and 9th 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 | 16,691 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 275 | 83.8 |
| 2012 | 5,110 | 1st lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 212 | 44.5 |
| 2013 | 16,356 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 202 | 109.5 |
| 2014 | 14,378 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 204 | 84.6 |
| 2015 | 20,492 | 13th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 214 | 90.0 |
| 2016 | 21,350 | 15th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 265 | 103.0 |
| 2017 | 20,945 | 14th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 259 | 115.4 |
| 2018 | 17,759 | 11th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 244 | 76.7 |
| 2019 | 17,587 | 10th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 306 | 74.6 |
| 2020 | 12,967 | 4th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 366 | 72.0 |
| 2021 | 12,290 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 365 | 76.1 |
| 2022 | 8,435 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 365 | 86.1 |
| 2023 | 15,906 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 334 | 91.9 |
| 2024 | 18,115 | 12th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 221 | 94.1 |
| 2025 | 16,913 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 194 | 115.0 |
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