Idaho Department of Water Resources
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IDWR Legal Matters: Delivery Calls, Mitigation Plans, and Court Cases
Every legal matter the Idaho Department of Water Resources lists on its active and archived matter indexes: delivery calls, mitigation plans, administrative actions, settlements, and the district court and Idaho Supreme Court cases that follow them, each with its docket, status, and dated filing trail.
- Organization
- Idaho Department of Water Resources
- Dataset
- IDWR Legal Matters: Delivery Calls, Mitigation Plans, and Court Cases
- Geography
- Idaho
- Time coverage
- 1940-2026 (filing dates); matter status as of 2026-09-08
- Update frequency
- Continuous; IDWR updates each matter's page as filings occur
- Published
- not stated
- Retrieved
- September 8, 2026
- Original file
- https://idwr.idaho.gov/legal-actions/
- Methodology
- https://idwr.idaho.gov/legal-matters/archived-matters/
- License
- Idaho public record.
- Our copy
- idwr-legal-matters, built by
scripts/fetch-idwr-legal-matters.py
Caveats
- These are real disputes involving named parties, several of them live. This dataset reports docket status and filing dates exactly as IDWR publishes them; it does not characterize the merits of any matter, and nothing built from it should either.
- status ('active' or 'archived') is this puller's own assertion about which IDWR index a matter sat on as of the retrieved date, not a claim about the matter's posture today. IDWR decides which index a matter sits on, and a matter can stay on the active list for years, which reflects how long conjunctive administration takes rather than a backlog.
- The join key is the matter's URL slug, not the docket number: several matters carry no docket number at all, and at least one docket number is shared by two matters. `matter` in the records file is that slug and is unique across all rows; `docket` is not.
- Two of IDWR's own published filing dates are typos: an Administrative Bulletin dated December 3, 2104, and a procedural order on case CV-2015-1687 dated October 27, 2105. Both are visible verbatim in the raw HTML this puller fetched, but are excluded from each matter's firstFilingDate/lastFilingDate and from water.idwr_filings_by_year, because including them would put a 2015 case at the top of any sort by recent activity.
- firstFilingDate and lastFilingDate reflect only the filings this puller's regex parser could extract from a matter's page text; a matter's true filing history may run longer than what parsed cleanly. filingCount is the number of filings parsed, not a count IDWR itself publishes as a single figure.
- water.idwr_matters_by_type is a snapshot: a count of matters, by IDWR's own type label, as of the single retrieval date in this dataset's period. It is not a time series of when matters were opened.
- water.idwr_filings_by_year counts filings by the year of the filing date across all matters combined; it is not scoped to any one matter type.
Measures
- IDWR legal matters by type (count): Number of IDWR legal matters of each type, as of the retrieval date. A snapshot, not an annual series.
- IDWR filings by year (count): Number of individual filings across all IDWR legal matters, by the calendar year of the filing date, excluding two filings whose published date is a typo (see caveats).