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Colorado DWR CDSS REST Web Services (HydroBase)

Colorado Division of Water Resources Decision Support System REST API serving HydroBase data: real-time and historical streamflow, surface water and groundwater station readings, reservoir levels, diversions, water rights, structures, and administrative call analysis. One of the most complete state water web services in the US.

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dwr.state.co.us

At a glance

Region
United States (North America)
Coverage
State-wide (Colorado)
Access
Free
Category
Government

What's inside

  • Streamflow
  • Groundwater Levels
  • Reservoir Levels
  • Water Rights
  • Diversions

Terms explained

What you can do with it

Typical work that data of this type supports.

  1. 01

    Storage tracking

    Follow storage and releases through the season.

    Because it has: Groundwater Levels

  2. 02

    Change over time

    See how lakes and wetlands have grown or shrunk.

  3. 03

    Design flows

    Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.

    Because it has: Streamflow

Where AI adds value

Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.

  1. 01

    Storage from space

    Estimate volume from satellite water area and altimetry.

  2. 02

    Release decisions

    Optimise releases against inflow forecasts.

  3. 03

    Flow forecasting

    Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.

Machine access and documentation

Open API

Machine-readable endpoint on dwr.state.co.us

Licence: Open data / public domain

Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.

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