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Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District 02CW038 DECREE OF THE COURT 26. The foregoing Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law are incorporated by this reference and modified as necessary to constitute the Decree of the Court. 27. T'he Court hereby grants the application for conditional water rights for recreational in- channel boating uses, with incidental fishing purposes, at the in-channel physical control structures and devices described herein in the clauned amounts during the claimed time periods with an appropriation date of October 20, 1998. 28. Applicant shall provide such accounting for the water rights adjudicated herein as is reasonably requested by the Division Engineer. 29. Applicant shall install adequate measuring devices as may reasonably be required by the Division Engineer. 30. The water rights and priority granted herein are based on the appropriation date confirxne.d herein and on the filing of the application in this case in the Water Court in the year of 2002. Said water rights and priority shall be administered as having been filed in 2002, and shall be junior to all water rights granted pursuant to applications filed in previous years. As between all water rights applied for in the same calendar year, priorities shall be determined by historical dates of appropriation and shall not be affected by the date of application or the ciate of entry of ruling. 31. The conditional water rights for the Gunnison River Whitewater Course are hereby continued in full force and effect until the last day of December, 2009. To maintain such conditional water rights, an application for a finding of reasonable diligence shall be filed on or before the last day ofDecember, 2009, or a showing made on or before such date that such conditional rights have become absolute water rights by reason of the completion of the appropriation. 9