Colorado ยท county water record
Water in Yuma County
What the state and federal record says about water here, before you look at any particular piece of ground. Every finding names the agency it came from.
- 138 Live water rights across 2,400 square miles
- 7,869 Wells drilled across 2,400 square miles
- 0 ac Irrigated ground across 2,400 square miles
- 234 ft Well depth middle value across 2,077 of 2,400 square miles
Point at any square mile to read what is on it. Hover the maps below to compare them.
Yuma County by the square mile
Every finding on this page is one number for the whole county. These are the same records placed on the ground they came from.
Live water rights. Decreed rights still on the books. This is where the paper water is, which is not the same map as where anybody drilled.
- none on record (bare ground)
- up to 1
- 2
- 3
- 4 to 6
- 7 to 16
- over 16
2,400 surveyed sections, drawn 2 by 2 miles to a square. The shading is scaled against every county in Colorado, so a colour means the same thing on any of these pages. The outline is the county boundary from the Census Bureau: ground inside the line and outside the shading is ground nobody has drilled, filed on or addressed. Aerial imagery is the USGS National Map.
Stands out
Much of this county sits in a designated groundwater basin
100% of well permits are inside NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS, where new permits are restricted or unavailable. Before anything else about water here, find out whether you can get one.
CDSS well permits 1 of 15 counties
100% here 1st of 15 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Stands out
Water here changes hands and moves
22% of rights carry a transfer, exchange or alternate point event, against 11% across the state. An active market means a price exists, and it also means water can leave the ground it started on.
CDSS water rights, net amounts 5 of 60 counties
22% here 5th of 60 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Stands out
The water table here sits far below the surface
The median static water level is 123 feet down, against 46 ft across the state. That is pumping cost every day the well runs.
CDSS well permits 5 of 60 counties
123 ft here 5th of 60 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Stands out
Every town here drinks the same water a well would draw
All 4 of this county's community water systems run on groundwater rather than surface water. A municipal supply is the best-monitored well in the county, so its record is the closest thing to a free test of the aquifer under this ground.
EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System 1 of 56 counties
100% here 1st of 56 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Context
Water systems here have unresolved health violations
1 of this county's 4 community water systems carry a health-based violation that has not been returned to compliance. Health-based means contamination or a treatment failure, not late paperwork.
EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System 29 of 44 counties
1 here 29th of 44 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
This is the county. Your question is probably a property.
None of the above is about a particular parcel. Water is not parcel-shaped: the ditch serving the ground runs through other people's land and the senior right that curtails it sits somewhere else, which is why the state files by survey section rather than by property. Check an address and you get the square mile it sits in, with the wells, the rights and what was actually diverted.
Check a property in Yuma County