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Well permit 1766-AD
Well permit · receipt 0006527 · Division 2 · Water District 17 · Otero 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 | Application Denied |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.06142, -103.71096 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R56.0 W S8NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0918720 | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 37 ft | — | — | — |
| 89873--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.2 km | 37 ft | — | — | 1978-05-10 |
| 205884- | Domestic, Stock | 0.2 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1965-03-23 |
| 293902- | Domestic | 0.2 km | 38 ft | — | — | 1951-06-01 |
| 89873- | Domestic, Stock | 0.2 km | 37 ft | — | — | 1978-05-10 |
| 293902--A | Domestic | 0.24 km | — | — | — | — |
| 21560-F | Irrigation | 0.24 km | 37 ft | — | — | — |
| 257-WCB | Irrigation | 0.24 km | 37 ft | — | — | 1964-06-09 |
| 9041-F | Irrigation | 0.34 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1965-03-23 |
| 22332-F | Irrigation | 0.34 km | 38 ft | — | — | 1965-03-17 |
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.