Dataset: Colorado Municipal Water Provider Boundaries

Dataset Publisher

Property	Description
name	Open Water Foundation
mbox	info@openwaterfoundation.org

Dataset Details

Overview

This dataset contains GeoJSON polygon features for Colorado municipal water provider boundaries. This is a statewide layer.

Water and sanitation districts, metropolitan districts, and other districts are available from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA). However, this layer does not contain municipal water utilities, and other entity types such as Denver Water are also be missing. Consequently, it is necessary to retrieve data from other sources and merge the various boundaries into one layer. OWF is working to automate this processing from public sources. However, the effort is large and focus is currently on the Poudre Basin and surrounding region.

The DOLA data also contain regional districts that do not supply treated water (e.g., Northern Water and the Colorado River District) and must be removed from the municipal water providers layer so as to not obscure other districts.

The workflow to process the dataset will evolve to address the above considerations.

Downloads

The following files can be downloaded or used directly.

Layer File	Description	View
co-municipal-water-provider-boundaries.geojson	Colorado municipal water provider boundaries for the entire State (incomplete).	View
co-municipal-water-provider-boundaries-districts-only.geojson	Colorado municipal water provider boundaries for the entire State, containing only special districts (no utilities, etc.) (incomplete).	View
co-water-conservancy-district-boundaries.geojson	Colorado major water conservancy and conservation districts.	View

The co-municipal-water-provider-boundaries dataset does not include the following large conservancy and conservation districts because these districts focus on raw water and, because of their size, would obscure municipal water provider boundaries. These organizations typically were formed to operate regional projects such as reservoirs and to provide a broad range of services. These districts are included in the co-water-conservancy-district-boundaries dataset.

District	Basin
Colorado River Water Conservation District	Colorado
Dolores Water Conservancy District	Dolores
Northern Water	South Platte
Southeastern Colorado Conservancy District	Arkansas
Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District	Arkansas
Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District	Gunnison
Upper South Platte Water Conservancy	South Platte
Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District	Yampa

Workflow

See the owf-data-co-municipal-water-provider-boundaries GitHub repository for information.

Update Frequency and Versions

The dataset is updated periodically using data from the State Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) and other sources. A single latest version is published. In the future, dated snapshots may be published to help archive data to understand growth.

Credits

• The original dataset shapefiles are downloaded from the State Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) Water and Sanitation District Boundaries, and Metropolitan District Boundaries datasets.
• Data for individual organizations have been provided by those organizations, as listed below.
• The Open Water Foundation created and maintains this merged dataset.

Other service area boundary data are taken from the following sources, with processing workflow specific to the entity:

Water Provider	Water Provider ID	Data Source
Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority	ACWWA	KML File from Google Map
Denver Water	DenverWater	GIS data request delivered as shapefile. See the disclaimer below.
Fort Collins	FtCollins	Esri Map Server shapefile export

License

Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

See also additional disclaimers in the next section.

Disclaimers

The following disclaimers are associated with specific datasets.

Denver Water

Disclaimer (data and metadata):

The geographic information systems maps, data and metadata contained herein were prepared by the Denver water board for its internal purposes only. The Denver water board provides GS maps, data and metadata as a public service with no claim as to the completeness, usefulness, timeliness or accuracy of its content, positional or otherwise. Denver water and its employees make no warranty, expressed or implied, and assume no legal liability or responsibility for the ability of users to fulfill their intended purposes and accessing or using GIS maps, data or metadata or for omissions and content regarding such. The information provided is presented “as is�, without warranty of any kind, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Your use of this information is at your own risk. In providing this information or access to it, Denver water assumes no obligation to assist the user in the use of such information or in the development, use, or maintenance of any applications applied to or associated with maps, data or metadata. The GIS material provided to you may contain confidential and or security sensitive information and any sale, reproduction or distribution of this information, or products derived their from, in any format is expressly prohibited. In protecting the provided GIS material from further distribution of any sort you will exercise at least that degree of care used to prevent disclosure, publication or dissemination of your own proprietary information, provided that degree of care is at least reasonable.

See Also

• Colorado Municipal Boundaries dataset