western water law is insane and someone finally has to track it
DitchOS manages irrigation water rights for western US agricultural operations — priority dates, acre-feet allocations, transfer filings, and seasonal call records all in one dashboard. It pulls live stream gauge data from USGS and alerts you the moment your senior rights are being curtailed by upstream users. Finally a tool that speaks the language of prior appropriation without a water attorney on retainer.
- Full priority date ledger with real-time call status across your entire portfolio
- Tracks over 340 distinct water right instrument types across 17 western state schemas
- Live USGS stream gauge integration with configurable curtailment alert thresholds
- Automated transfer filing workflows pre-populated for Colorado DWR, Nevada State Engineer, and Utah Division of Water Rights
- Seasonal call history going back to your earliest recorded priority date. Every one of them.
USGS National Water Information System, Colorado DWR OpenData, WaterSMART API, AgriWebb, Granular, Trimble Ag, FarmLogs, HydroBase Connect, CDSS REST Services, Ditch Ledger Pro, AquaVault, SeniorRights.io
DitchOS is built on a microservices backbone with each state's water right schema isolated in its own ingestion service, so a schema change in Wyoming doesn't take down your Colorado dashboard. Stream gauge telemetry flows through a Redis cluster that handles long-term hydrological time series and historical call records going back decades. The frontend is a React monolith that talks to a GraphQL gateway, and all transactional water right filings run through MongoDB because the document model maps cleanly onto the chaos of western water instruments. Deployments are fully containerized and I run it on a single beefy bare-metal box in a Salt Lake City data center because I trust myself more than I trust AWS.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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