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An independent site. Not the Division, not legal advice on water rights, and not a background-check service.
What this site is
An independent search layer over one public file. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Colorado Division of Water Resources or the State of Colorado.
This is not advice on a water right. A well permit and a decreed water right are separate instruments, and a property purchase turns on both. This site reports what the permit register says. What it means for a particular parcel is a question for a Colorado water lawyer or engineer.
Our copy is dated 2026-08-21. The register is refreshed daily and ours is not. For anything a transaction depends on, use the Division’s own records.
⚠️ Not a consumer reporting agency
This site is not a consumer reporting agency as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.), and nothing published or sold here is a consumer report.
You may not use this site, its pages, its search, its API or any dataset obtained from it, in whole or in part, as a factor in deciding a person's eligibility for:
- employment, promotion, reassignment or retention;
- credit or insurance underwriting;
- housing or tenancy;
- any other purpose covered by the FCRA.
Verifying that a licence exists, directly with the issuing authority, is a different act from screening a person — and where a decision about someone depends on it, the check belongs with a screening company that operates as a consumer reporting agency and carries the obligations that come with it.
Having your record removed
If you are named on this site and would rather not be, write to us and we will remove you. You do not have to explain why, and we will not ask.
Two things this cannot do, and we say so plainly rather than let you find out later: it does not change the official register, which is where the record actually lives; and it does not remove you from anyone else's copy of the same public data.
The sources, and what they require
This site republishes public registers. Source by source: the licence it is published under, and the condition its publisher sets — read from the publisher's own terms page, on the date shown.
| Source | Licence | What the publisher requires |
|---|---|---|
| Well Application Permit — Colorado Division of Water Resources | Public domain data, under the data.colorado.gov Terms of Use | The dataset carries the licence identifier PUBLIC_DOMAIN, which describes the data. The portal’s Terms of Use ask something further of anyone who builds on it, and it is quoted here word for word because that is how it is written: applications must state that « The data made available here has been modified for use from its original source, which is the State of Colorado. » The State also disclaims accuracy in terms: « THE STATE OF COLORADO MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTY AS TO THE COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, OR CONTENT OF ANY DATA. » Beyond the portal’s conditions, one limit belongs to this file in particular: it records well permit applications and what the Division was told about the wells built under them. It is not a record of water rights, and a permit and a decreed water right are separate instruments. — Terms read on 2026-08-21, terms |
Attribution the source requires
The publisher asks that anyone building on this data carry the following, and it is quoted word for word:
The data made available here has been modified for use from its original source, which is the State of Colorado.
Errors
If a page here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. If the underlying record is wrong we cannot fix that — it has to be corrected with the Colorado Division of Water Resources, and our copy follows at the next collection.