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BELLAIRES LAKE RES
Structure dossier · WDID 0303687 · 3 · ELKHORN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:04 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 1904-07-29 — 249th most senior of the 2961 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: SEELEY LAKE RES (1902-06-12). Immediately behind: MOUNTAIN SUPPLY RES 20 (1904-09-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20066.19933 | 1904-07-29 | 1922-04-22 | 69.0 | 0.0 | A | IRRFIS |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA2031.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2031 | 1 | 1922-04-22 | 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 36 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 2,885 AF — 8014% of that, and 13th lowest of the 13 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 27 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 75% of median | 26 | 32 | 0.4 |
| 2000 | 45 | 9th lowest of 13 · 125% of median | 31 | 153 | 1.3 |
| 2001 | 36 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | — | 62 | 0.5 |
| 2002 | — | no recorded volume | 24 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 58 | 10th lowest of 13 · 161% of median | 34 | 23 | 2.0 |
| 2004 | 28 | 4th lowest of 13 · 78% of median | 14 | 123 | 0.3 |
| 2005 | 30 | 5th lowest of 13 · 83% of median | 40 | 7 | 2.7 |
| 2006 | — | no recorded volume | 26 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 33 | 6th lowest of 13 · 92% of median | 17 | 62 | 0.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | 1st lowest of 13 · 25% of median | 15 | 8 | 0.7 |
| 2009 | 39 | 8th lowest of 13 · 108% of median | 21 | 42 | 1.7 |
| 2010 | 21 | 2nd lowest of 13 · 58% of median | 23 | 62 | 0.2 |
| 2011 | 63 | 11th lowest of 13 · 175% of median | — | 198 | 0.4 |
| 2021 | 424 | 12th lowest of 13 · 1178% of median | — | 61 | 6.1 |
| 2022 | 2,885 | 13th lowest of 13 · 8014% of median | — | 151 | 50.8 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 13 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1609 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 16% of the irrigation seasons in 1976-2022 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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