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Well permit 5956-R
Well permit · receipt 0000155 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Saguache County
Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR permit record ↗
What this permit is not
A well permit is the State Engineer’s permission to construct and use a well — it is not a decreed water right and confers none. DWR’s record limits its use to: Irrigation (category General Purpose).
It carries no WDID, so nothing on the decreed side of this site describes it. For an exempt household or stock well that is normal: such a well is exempt from administration in the priority system — a river call does not curtail it — and never needed a decree. For a non-exempt use it may mean the application expired, was denied, or was permitted under an augmentation plan DWR has not linked here. How permits, decrees and monitoring wells differ →
Permit details
| Status | Well Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 156.0 ft |
| Driller | MCANINCH (MCANINCH, HOMER A) |
| Permit issued | 1958-07-03 |
| First beneficial use | 1946-06-30 |
| Well plugged | 2011-03-04 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.76968, -106.21223 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T41.0 N R7.0 E S28SWNE |
Nearby well permits
The 10 closest permits on record, as DWR describes them. Depth and static water level are what the driller reported at completion — one reading, on one day, not a monitored trend. See them on the map →
| Permit | Use | Distance | Depth | Static level | Yield | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.03 km | 45 ft | — | — | — |
| 5957-R | Irrigation | 0.25 km | 151 ft | — | — | — |
| 5956-R-R | Irrigation | 0.56 km | 124 ft | — | — | 1974-04-13 |
| 25346-F | Irrigation | 0.57 km | 165 ft | — | — | 1982-02-19 |
| 14265-R-R | Irrigation | 0.58 km | 162 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 1980-03-04 |
| 14265-R | Irrigation | 0.58 km | 105 ft | — | — | 1972-10-15 |
| 16122-F | Irrigation | 0.6 km | 159 ft | — | 900.0 gpm | 1972-04-28 |
| 16122-F-R | Irrigation | 0.6 km | 159 ft | — | 900.0 gpm | 1977-07-11 |
| 62941- | Domestic, Stock | 0.74 km | 88 ft | — | — | 1972-10-03 |
| 424-R | Irrigation | 0.8 km | 106 ft | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.