Hydrohistorian
Working models of Colorado's water districts, built from the state's own public records. Each basin is modeled as a flow network — every gage, diversion, and return placed at its river mile, walked downstream as a mass balance — then connected to its diversion history (daily records back to 1950), long-term flow statistics, and the water-rights layer: decrees, priority dates, and the administrative calls that explain why diversions start and stop — now joined by the groundwater beneath it all: monitored wells, water-table trends, and the stream–aquifer connection, basin by basin.
Data
Colorado DWR records — surface AND ground
water: stations, structures, diversion records, water-rights net
amounts, administrative calls, monitored wells and their water
levels — from the state's bulk HydroBase archive plus live REST,
cross-checked against USGS's own published records. Every page
reports its own real coverage and sources.
Per basin
A longitudinal flow schematic, a date picker to
reconstruct any historical day, trend & changepoint statistics per
gage, and a legal view: seniority, compliance screens, and call-based
stoppage explanations with links to court records.
My Water
Add your own WDIDs and every visit answers the
daily question directly: is an active call senior to your
rights right now, did a new court case attach to your structure, did
the state quietly revise your published record — plus your
right's real historical yield, and a printable dossier per structure.
Free account to start.
Groundwater
The aquifer beneath each river: 34,000+
monitored wells and over a million water-level measurements
back to 1883, classified by aquifer regime, with per-well trends,
stream-corridor water-table histories, an advisory stream-depletion
screen — and a 3D aquifer x-ray: every unit
(alluvial, Dawson, Denver, Arapahoe, Laramie–Fox Hills) as its
own head surface under the land, animated across a century. Clearly
labeled, never a substitute for DWR administration.
Status meanings
Deployed: full analysis, actively
maintained. Draft, verified: auto-generated network
with tributary topology confirmed against USGS hydrography —
unreviewed by a person. Survey only: inventoried, not
yet verified.
6deployed
70draft, verified
0draft, survey only
2not yet surveyed
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No basins match “”.
Division 1
WD1 — South Platte: Greeley to Balzac
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD2 — South Platte: Denver Gage to Greeley
Deployed
WD3 — Cache La Poudre River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD4 — Big Thompson River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD5 — St. Vrain Creek
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD6 — Boulder Creek
Deployed
WD7 — Clear Creek
Deployed
WD8 — South Platte Cheesman to Denver Gage
Deployed
WD9 — Bear Creek
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD23 — Upper South Platte
Deployed
WD48 — Laramie River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD49 — Republican River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD64 — South Platte: Balzac to Stateline
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD65 — Arikaree River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD76 — Sand Creek
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD80 — North Fork of South Platte
Deployed
Division 2
WD10 — Fountain Creek
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD11 — Arkansas: Headwaters to Salida
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD12 — Arkansas: Salida to Portland
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD13 — Wet Mountain Valley
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD14 — Arkansas: Portland to Fowler
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD15 — Saint Charles
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD16 — Cucharas River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD17 — Arkansas: Fowler to Las Animas
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD18 — Apishapa River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD19 — Purgatoire River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD66 — Cimarron River Basin
No DWR station data
WD67 — Arkansas: Las Animas to Stateline
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD79 — Huerfano River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
Division 3
WD20 — Rio Grande
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD21 — Alamosa La Jara
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD22 — Conejos Creek
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD24 — Culebra Creek
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD25 — San Luis Creek
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD26 — Saguache Creek
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD27 — Carnero Creek
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD35 — Trinchera Creek
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
Division 4
WD28 — Tomichi Creek
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD40 — North Fork/Tribs.
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD41 — Lower Uncompahgre River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD42 — Lower Gunnison River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD59 — East River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD60 — San Miguel River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD61 — Paradox Creek
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD62 — Upper Gunnison River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD63 — Dolores River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD68 — Upper Uncompahgre River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD73 — Little Dolores River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
Division 5
WD36 — Blue River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD37 — Eagle River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD38 — Roaring Fork River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD39 — Rifle/Elk/Parachute Creeks
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD45 — Divide Creek
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD50 — Muddy/Troublesome Creeks
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD51 — Upper Colorado/Fraser Rivers
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD52 — Piney/Cottonwood Creeks
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD53 — Tribs. North of Colorado River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD70 — Roan Creek Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD72 — Lower Colorado River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
Division 6
WD43 — White River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD44 — Lower Yampa River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD47 — North Platte River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD54 — Slater/Timberlake Creeks
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD55 — Little Snake River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD56 — Green River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD57 — Middle Yampa River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD58 — Upper Yampa River
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
Division 7
WD29 — San Juan River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD30 — Animas River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD31 — Los Pinos River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD32 — McElmo Creek Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD33 — La Plata River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD34 — Mancos River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD46 — Navajo Reservoir
No DWR station data
WD69 — Disappointment Creek Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD71 — West Dolores Creek/Tribs.
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD77 — Navajo River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified
WD78 — Piedra River Basin
Draft - NLDI/CDSS verified