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Well permit 553-AD
Well permit · receipt 0012714 · 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 | 38.05954, -103.65367 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R56.0 W S11NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 554-AD | Irrigation | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 126488--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.15 km | 34 ft | — | — | 1991-12-10 |
| 86513- | Domestic | 0.29 km | 30 ft | — | — | 1976-10-07 |
| 154300- | Domestic, Stock | 0.67 km | — | — | — | — |
| 154300--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.67 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1989-06-05 |
| 0264043A | Domestic | 0.81 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0264043B | Domestic | 0.81 km | — | — | — | — |
| 13199-R | Irrigation | 0.81 km | 36 ft | — | — | — |
| 13200-R | Irrigation | 0.81 km | — | — | — | — |
| 143483- | Stock | 0.84 km | 49 ft | — | — | 1986-05-29 |
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.