Hydrohistorian
Well permit 55497-
Well permit · receipt 0023168 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Alamosa 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: Domestic (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 | Well Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 735.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1972-04-04 |
| First beneficial use | 1938-07-22 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.47115, -105.85058 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T37.0 N R10.0 E S11NENW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50497- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 850 ft | — | — | 1955-08-26 |
| 54720- | Domestic | 0.14 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 54721- | Domestic | 0.16 km | 800 ft | — | — | — |
| 54723- | Domestic | 0.17 km | 50 ft | — | — | — |
| 54327- | Domestic | 0.21 km | 220 ft | — | — | — |
| 56819- | Domestic | 0.22 km | 300 ft | — | — | — |
| 58257- | Domestic | 0.22 km | 360 ft | — | — | — |
| 52692- | Domestic | 0.23 km | 850 ft | — | — | — |
| 71878- | Domestic | 0.23 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 58056- | Domestic | 0.26 km | — | — | — | — |
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.