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Overview / Signals / signal:wet-dry-ownership-mismatch

Wet-dry ownership mismatch

Title & Compliancecomplianceverifieddetector verifiedColorado DWR / CDSS public records (public domain). Seed-mode corpora are synthetic development data, marked in provenance.

The county assessor's owner for the parcel a well or pump sits on does not reconcile with the best ownership assertion for the structure's water right. Either the water has been severed from the land (split estate), a conveyance went unrecorded on one side, or one record is stale — every outcome is a title-research work item before any transaction. Restricted to point-linked wells and pumps, where owner identity between land and water is the norm; canal service zones are excluded because a ditch legitimately serves land it does not own.

Instances
0
0 distinct records
Score range
not firing
Fire rate
0.0e+0
Confidence
0.80
Last observed
definition v1
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Quality profile7-dimension detector quality
Score distributionno instances
Not firing yet
No resolved instances in the active release. The detector is in the catalog and will populate as epochs materialize.
Evidenceclaims, risks, and assumptions behind this signal
Divergence between the assessor roll and water-right ownership evidence on the same ground is a leading indicator of split estates and unrecorded conveyances.
Risks
  • assessor rolls arrive via an annual OIT data call — ownership can be up to 12 months stale, so a recent sale looks like a mismatch
  • family entities with different names can share beneficial ownership
Assumptions
  • a well or pump normally shares ownership with the parcel under it
  • token-normalized name comparison approximates identity
Definition provenance
signal id
signal:wet-dry-ownership-mismatch
definition
v1 · created 2026-07-20 03:21:47
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