Know the water before you buy the land.
Water Table reads Colorado's public water records for any parcel and tells you what water comes with it, who decides, and the law behind each answer.
Pitkin County
Well permits
Permit 88643-F is on this parcel, for domestic use
Basalt Water Conservancy District
An allotment contract, assigned to the buyer at closing
Contract water
From the Ruedi and Green Mountain reservoirs
Water rights within a mile
27, the oldest appropriated in 1882
Statewide parcels
OIT · 2,801,701 rows
Well permits
DWR · 593,057 rows
Decreed water rights
DWR · 173,859 rows
Ditches, wells and reservoirs
DWR · 211,502 structures
Reservoir programs and pools
27 programs matched
Designated groundwater basins
DWR · 8 basins
Statutes and DWR rules
C.R.S. and DWR guidelines
From the warehouse
Decided by
Answer
What water will I legally have on the day I close?
Settled From the public recordCan I keep animals, a garden, horses?
Settled From the public recordCan I split it later?
Depends The record doesn't settle thisLand report · October 16, 2026
Medicine Bow Rd, Aspen
Pitkin County · Colorado · 1.79 acres · Parcel 264320102001
For someone buying rural land: what water comes with it, what you can build on, and what to ask before you close.
At a glance
6 settled 0 likely 3 depend
The water isn't in the listing.
In Colorado a well needs its own permit, ditch shares transfer on a ditch company's books, and water rights can be sold apart from the land. A listing rarely says which of these comes with the parcel.
The answers sit with the Division of Water Resources, the water court and the county. Getting them takes hours of calls and searches. Water Table reads them for the parcel and puts each answer on one page.
What reports have found
- On 40 acres in Elbert County, the well on the land was permitted for irrigation and stock, not a house. A home needs its own household well permit.
- On 79 acres in Costilla County, no well, water right or ditch is on record. The nearest place to buy hauled water is about 15 miles away.
- On the same land, a well is likely high in arsenic: about a 57% chance it exceeds the limit. The report says to test it before closing.
Who it's for
- Brokers
- Answer a buyer's water questions in minutes, without hours of calls or handing them off.
- Buyers
- Know what water comes with the land before you close.
- Attorneys
- The records already pulled, each answer tied to the statute and the dataset it rests on, with dates.
- Developers
- Who decides, who to contact, and how much water the land supports, before you commit.
- Engineers
- The well, water and land records in one place, so your time goes to the analysis.
Questions
Where does the information come from?
Public records: well records from the Division of Water Resources, water rights and filings, county parcel and assessor records, and federal flood, wildfire and water quality data. Each answer lists the records it read and the date each was loaded.
Is this legal advice?
No. It is not legal advice, a title search or an appraisal. Each answer names who decides the question, so you know who to confirm it with.
What if the seller says there is a well and the report shows none?
The report shows what the state has on record. A well can exist without a record on file, and the report lists what to ask the seller for.
Can I share a report with a client?
Yes. Every report has a share link. Your client opens it without an account, with your name and contact at the top.
How current is it?
Each dataset is reloaded on its own schedule, and every answer shows the date the records behind it were loaded.
What does it cost?
Search is free. The reports are free through April 2027 for brokers and water professionals in the founding pilot.
Start with a parcel
Search is free. The reports are free through April 2027 for brokers and water professionals in the founding pilot.
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