Available Web Services
The goal of these services is to expose any useful non-proprietary, non-security-sensitive data, within reason. Consumers of the Colorado web service(s) implicitly agree to the terms of our disclaimer*. Web services, by nature, require some level of programming to consume. Web services are for machine-to-machine communications, exchanging XML messages between the entity requesting information (client), and the entity providing information by responding to these requests (server). There is documentation available to assist in programming a client to consume our web service. If you are seeking to use the web service, please consult this documentation, available on this page.
Surface Water Conditions Web Service
Colorado’s Division of Water Resources’ (DWR) ColoradoWaterSMS web service exposes data from our stream flow and climate stations throughout the state. This web service is one way that we provide this data to our cooperators and anyone else interested in consuming it.
Service Address: http://www.dwr.state.co.us/SMS_WebService/ColoradoWaterSMS.asmxHelp Document: