Water due diligence for Texas land.
Most rural Texas properties draw their water from a well, and most of what can be known about that well before a rig arrives is already on public record. This is what the record holds, what it does not, and the questions to settle before closing.
What the public record holds.
TWDB
Submitted Driller's Reports
Every water well drilled in Texas since 2003 is meant to be filed with the Texas Water Development Board by the driller: location, depth, the level water was struck at, casing, yield if tested, and the driller's own lithology. Filed, not verified, and the location is often the nearest road, so a report reads each one for what it is.
TWDB
Groundwater Database
A smaller set of wells the state and the districts measure over time: water levels by date, aquifer assignments, and sampled quality. Where a groundwater database well sits near a property, it is the best evidence of how the water level moves.
Districts
Groundwater conservation districts
Much of Texas sits inside a district that sets well spacing, permits and sometimes production limits. Which district a property sits in is a matter of record; what it requires is a call to the district.
TxGIO
Parcels
The appraisal districts' parcel boundaries, gathered statewide by the Texas Geographic Information Office. The boundary decides which wells are on the property and which are the neighbours'.
Census
The address itself
A rural address is placed on the road by the US Census Bureau's geocoder. A report says how confident that placement is, because a point on the wrong side of a road is a point on the wrong parcel.
The questions to settle before closing.
Is there a well on the property?
The record may show one; the seller confirms whether it exists, works, and is the supply. A well can be filed under a neighbour's address, or not filed at all.
How deep are the neighbours' wells?
The best guide to a new well's depth is the completion depth of the wells around it, ranked by how much their ground resembles the property's.
What did they yield?
Where drillers reported a yield, it is on record. Where they did not, no honest document invents one.
Which aquifer, and which district?
Both are matters of record and both change what a well costs and what it is allowed to do.
Is the water shared, or the rights severed?
A shared well agreement or a severed water right is a title matter. The record can raise the question; a title company answers it.
What has the seller been told?
A Texas seller's disclosure notice asks about water. Public evidence can be organised behind its lines; the seller's knowledge is the seller's.
How SiteReport reads it.
One address in, the record around it out, each claim marked for what it is.
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The property located and its parcel drawn, the wells on record around it with their count and median depth, the aquifer and the district, and a first reading of the risk. Free, without an account.
The Water Due Diligence Report
What is known about water on this land, before you buy it. $99 once, delivered in minutes as a web report and a PDF.
- Wells on record near the property, with distance and depth
- Estimated depth to water and a likely range
- Aquifer and groundwater district context
- What only the seller can confirm, and what to ask a title company
- Every claim cited, or marked as not found
- A PDF you can send to your agent or lender
What the sample shows
A complete report for a real Hays County property, generated 2026-09-04 by model tx-sitereport-0.1.0, read from TWDB Submitted Driller's Reports (SDR).
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