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What water arguments are actually about
A report answers these for a particular square mile. These pages answer them in general: what the question really is, which Colorado records hold the answer, and what a report does with them. Every statute is cited and every figure says where it came from and when it was counted.
- 01 Wells
What it takes to drill a well here
Two separate questions. One is answered by the permit rules, the other only by what the neighbours hit.
Read this →131,490 never became a well - 02 The rights themselves
Paper water and wet water
A decree says how much may be diverted. The diversion records say how much was. The gap between them is the most useful number on a listing.
Read this →85,753 records expressly not kept - 03 What the court has done to them
The two ways a water right dies
A conditional right has to be defended every six years. An absolute one can be lost by not using it. Both leave a paper trail.
Read this →685 abandoned for want of diligence - 04 How the report is built
Where a Colorado report gets its records
A due diligence report is not a query against one agency. These are the places where that difference is actually made.
Read this →147,382 parcels from county assessors alone
These are the general answers.
Which of them applies to a particular eighty acres is a different question, and it is settled by the records filed against that ground rather than by anything on this page. Put in an address and the free report says what the record holds there.
Check a propertyNot legal advice, a title opinion, or an appraisal. These pages describe how Colorado records and law work in general; a decision about a particular property should be made with the underlying documents.