About & sources
A public map, kept honest in the open
This website records who does what in Colorado water, and how those groups connect. Every relationship is read off a public page. Nothing is inferred, and where the record is thin, we say so on the entry itself.
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Organizations
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Basin roundtables
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Funds & programs
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Mapped relationships
What this is, and isn’t
This is
A public-interest map of who works on Colorado water: state and federal agencies, basin roundtables, districts, utilities, watershed groups, tribal nations, and the funding and research bodies behind them. It’s built from public records so a resident can see who to talk to and how the pieces fit.
This isn’t
A state agency, a legal record, or an endorsement of anyone listed. It doesn’t set policy, decide water rights, or speak for any organization in it. Where a claim comes from one party’s account rather than a document, the page says so.
How an entry earns its place
Three rules, applied to every organization, every relationship, and every region on the map.
Found on a public page
A board roster, meeting minutes, a grant award list, an agency directory. If it isn't published, it isn't here.
Written plainly
Acronyms are expanded on first use. Every relationship is a sentence a newcomer can follow, not a jargon summary of a filing.
Corrected when it's wrong
Groups reorganize and boards turn over. A correction from the organization itself takes priority over everything else on file.
Coverage, stated openly
The Front Range is mapped deepest because that’s where the mapping started. A short bar means the record is thin there — not that nobody is doing the work.
A thin bar is an invitation
If your region looks empty, it’s because we haven’t found and verified the groups working there yet. That doesn’t mean nothing is happening. Tell us who’s missing and it gets added with a source, same as everyone else on the map.
Recent claims, with their sources
A sample of the relationship record. Every row links to the page it came from.
Big Dry Creek Watershed Association · Adams County Government
Adams County joined the Big Dry Creek Watershed Association's Board of Directors as a later member government.
www.bigdrycreek.org →Big Dry Creek Watershed Association · City of Northglenn
City of Northglenn is a founding member (1997) of the Big Dry Creek Watershed Association and sits on its Board of Directors.
www.bigdrycreek.org →Big Dry Creek Watershed Association · City of Thornton
City of Thornton joined the Big Dry Creek Watershed Association's Board of Directors as a later member government.
www.bigdrycreek.org →Big Dry Creek Watershed Association · Weld County Government
Weld County joined the Big Dry Creek Watershed Association's Board of Directors as a later member government.
www.bigdrycreek.org →U.S. Bureau of Reclamation — Eastern Colorado Area Office · Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Reclamation's Eastern Colorado Area Office lists Colorado Parks and Wildlife among its partner agencies.
www.usbr.gov →U.S. Bureau of Reclamation — Eastern Colorado Area Office · Northern Water
Reclamation's Eastern Colorado Area Office names Northern Water as a partner in operating the Colorado-Big Thompson Project.
www.usbr.gov →Know something this map has wrong?
Missing groups, a stale board roster, a link that died, a relationship we got backwards: send it and it gets fixed, with credit to the source.