Hydrohistorian
Well permit 1783-AD
Well permit · receipt 0006832 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Rio Grande 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 | 37.74448, -106.19047 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R7.0 E S3NENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41464-F | Irrigation | 0.01 km | 100 ft | — | 1350.0 gpm | 1970-04-06 |
| 6204-R | Irrigation | 0.01 km | 100 ft | — | — | 1951-03-31 |
| 11488-F | Irrigation | 0.28 km | — | — | — | — |
| 340183- | Domestic, Stock | 0.29 km | — | — | — | — |
| 284420- | Domestic, Stock | 0.53 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 284420--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.53 km | — | — | — | — |
| 87699-F | Commercial | 0.56 km | 165 ft | — | — | 1951-04-30 |
| 12725-F | Irrigation | 0.57 km | 180 ft | — | — | — |
| 10639- | Stock | 0.57 km | — | — | — | — |
| 212470- | Domestic, Stock | 0.58 km | 183 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1999-05-11 |
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.