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Well permit 557-AD
Well permit · receipt 0012716 · Division 2 · Water District 66 · Baca 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 | 37.33554, -102.61777 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T31.0 S R46.0 W S20NENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9178-FP | Irrigation | 0.25 km | 132 ft | — | — | 1965-04-03 |
| 12161-FP | Irrigation | 0.54 km | 300 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 1968-08-20 |
| 9180-FP | Irrigation | 0.59 km | 154 ft | — | — | 1965-04-01 |
| 34298--A | Domestic, Stock | 1.0 km | 340 ft | — | — | 2014-11-30 |
| 301040- | Stock | 1.0 km | 260 ft | — | 3.0 gpm | 2016-05-15 |
| 12160-F | Irrigation | 1.11 km | — | — | 0.0 gpm | 1968-08-25 |
| 9179-FP | Irrigation | 1.12 km | 452 ft | — | 2000.0 gpm | 1965-04-06 |
| 336587- | Domestic | 1.13 km | 380 ft | 185 ft | — | 2025-09-29 |
| 92135- | Stock | 1.13 km | 240 ft | — | — | 1977-09-13 |
| 34298- | Domestic | 1.14 km | 155 ft | — | — | 1968-09-30 |
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.