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GENESEE MOUNTAIN PL
Structure dossier · WDID 0901014 · 7 · BEAR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:57 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 1861-06-01 — 10th most senior of the 2058 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: PIONEER UNION DITCH (1861-06-01). Immediately behind: MORRISON INTAKE NO 2 (1861-06-01).
Decreed rights (10)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4170.0 | 1861-06-01 | 1884-02-04 | 0.3094 | 0.0 | C | ALL | |
| 4353.0 | 1861-12-01 | 1884-02-04 | 0.7629 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMFIRDOMOTH | |
| 4362.0 | 1861-12-10 | 1884-02-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMFIRDOM | |
| 4627.0 | 1862-09-01 | 1884-02-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMFIRDOMOTH | |
| 5418.0 | 1864-10-31 | 1884-02-04 | 0.8914 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMFIRDOMOTH | |
| 5553.0 | 1865-03-15 | 1884-02-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMFIRDOMOTH | |
| 5570.0 | 1865-04-01 | 1884-02-04 | 0.4022 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMFIROTH | |
| 43829.41899 | 1964-09-18 | 1970-12-31 | 8.75 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECDOM | |
| 44824.0 | 1972-09-21 | 1972-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | DOM | |
| 48577.44627 | 1972-03-08 | 1983-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRCOMINDRECFISDOMSTKWLD |
Legal record & documents
14 decreed actions on record across
9 court cases:
92CW0071, 83CW0353, W0748, W0157, W8000, W7649, W7050, W7049, W1564.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
92CW0071 | 2 | 1983-12-31 | S |
83CW0353 | 1 | 1983-12-31 | S |
W0748 | 1 | 1972-12-31 | O |
W0157 | 2 | 1970-12-31 | S |
W8000 | 1 | 1884-02-04 | O |
W7649 | 1 | 1884-02-04 | O |
W7050 | 1 | 1884-02-04 | O |
W7049 | 2 | 1884-02-04 | O |
W1564 | 3 | 1884-02-04 | O |
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 5 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 387 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 507 AF — 131% of that, and 5th lowest of the 5 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 50 | 1st lowest of 5 · 13% of median | 61 | 0.7 |
| 2021 | 387 | 3rd lowest of 5 · 100% of median | 363 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 391 | 4th lowest of 5 · 101% of median | 362 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 335 | 2nd lowest of 5 · 87% of median | 365 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 507 | 5th lowest of 5 · 131% of median | 302 | 6.5 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 100.0% of a median season / 82.2% dry-year.
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 | 10 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1453 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 2020-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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