Colorado water rights — monitored
Add your WDIDs and Water Signals tracks them across all 7 Colorado divisions. Daily curtailment status. Weekly public-record summary. Immediate email when active calls change in a district you watch. Every record sourced and linked directly to CDSS, USGS, or NRCS.
Data sources
USGS instantaneous streamflow
Live discharge (cfs) for 28 named gauges across all 7 Colorado basins. Refreshed every 15 minutes. Provisional readings (qualifier P) are flagged in-line.
CDSS administrative calls
Active calls per division pulled live from dwr.state.co.us. Curtailment status for any right on your watchlist is computed against the most senior call in its district.
CDSS waterrights/transaction filings
Decrees, change-of-use, and other transaction filings — ingested for all 7 Colorado divisions on a 30-day rolling window. Each filing carries the original CDSS link.
CDSS reservoir storage
Daily storage levels for major Colorado reservoirs (Granby, Pueblo, Blue Mesa, Cheesman, Carter, Horsetooth, and more). Storage shapes the call calculus directly.
NRCS SNOTEL snowpack
Daily snow water equivalent (SWE) for one representative high-elevation SNOTEL station per Colorado basin. Hot link to the NRCS basin map for context.
Water right metadata
Priority date, decreed amount, structure name, water source, and adjudication order for each WDID on your watchlist — pulled from CDSS net-amount records.
Live · USGS instantaneous streamflow
A live read of the seven Colorado divisions, pulled directly from USGS. Provisional readings carry a P qualifier upstream and are flagged that way in subscriber digests.
Streamflow · USGS gauges
Streamflow values are near-real-time observations from USGS gauge stations and may be provisional, estimated, or subject to revision. Historical median is a statistical summary only. Not a forecast or guarantee of future conditions. Verify at waterdata.usgs.gov.
Pricing
A single monthly subscription covers up to 10 watched rights with full digest, alerting, and source-linked archive. Add more rights and the per-right cost drops automatically.
Standard
$99/mo
includes up to 10 watched rights
Additional rights · 11–25
+$6/right/mo
automatic bulk discount
Every right past your first 10 is billed at $6/mo. So 25 watched rights = $99 + 15 × $6 = $189/mo.
You only pay for what you actually watch. Add and remove rights from your dashboard anytime — the next invoice prorates.
Portfolio · 26+
+$3/right/mo
bigger watchlists, lower per-right cost
Rights 26+ are billed at $3/mo. So a 100-right portfolio = $99 + 15 × $6 + 75 × $3 = $414/mo.
Tracking 200+ rights or want a bulk import? Get in touch.
Pricing is indicative for the current pilot cohort and may change as the product matures. Pilot subscribers are grandfathered for twelve months.
⚠ Legal Disclaimer — Informational only
Water Signals reads and summarizes publicly available government records (CDSS, Division Engineers, USGS, NRCS) for informational and research purposes only. This is not legal, engineering, hydrological, investment, or professional advice of any kind. Records may be incomplete, delayed, provisionally reported, or subsequently amended by the issuing agency. No warranty of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any purpose is made or implied. Water rights in Colorado are administered exclusively under the prior appropriation doctrine by the Colorado State Engineer and Division Engineers — nothing in a Water Signals digest constitutes an official determination of water right status or priority. You must independently verify every record against the original source filing before relying on it for any business, legal, operational, financial, or investment decision. Use of this service creates no attorney-client, engineer-client, fiduciary, or other professional relationship.