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Well permit 141717-
Well permit · receipt 0010720 · 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: Stock (category Residential).
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 | Permit Issued |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Driller | ARK VALLEY PUMP & SUPPLY (SMITH JR., WILLIAM) |
| Permit issued | 1985-10-17 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.03184, -103.98871 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R59.0 W S22NESE |
Nearby well permits
The 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12653-R | Irrigation | 1.2 km | — | — | — | — |
| 188-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 2.2 km | 29 ft | — | — | — |
| 22397-F | Stock | 3.38 km | 8 ft | — | — | 1972-06-05 |
| 22398-F | Stock | 3.48 km | 18 ft | — | — | 1970-10-31 |
| 36224-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 3.72 km | — | — | — | — |
| 128-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 4.23 km | 27 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.