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Well permit 55997-
Well permit · receipt 0024924 · Division 1 · Water District 8 · Douglas 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 | Permit Expired |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Driller | HIER DRILLING CO INC (HIER, BRUCE A.) |
| Permit issued | 1972-04-06 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.41490, -104.97764 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T7.0 S R68.0 W S26SWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35701--A | Domestic | 0.12 km | 504 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1997-07-09 |
| 35701- | Domestic | 0.12 km | 400 ft | — | — | 1968-10-29 |
| 41183--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.13 km | 500 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1986-07-18 |
| 26562--A | Domestic | 0.17 km | 500 ft | — | 14.0 gpm | 2005-04-22 |
| 26562- | Domestic | 0.17 km | — | — | — | — |
| 142397- | Domestic | 0.21 km | 460 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1986-11-21 |
| 311263- | Domestic | 0.25 km | 329 ft | — | 11.8 gpm | 1967-01-01 |
| 51495- | Domestic | 0.27 km | 407 ft | — | — | 1972-05-24 |
| 78873- | Domestic, Stock | 0.3 km | 368 ft | — | — | 1976-11-16 |
| 87614-F | Domestic, Stock | 0.33 km | 405 ft | 187 ft | 15.0 gpm | 2023-07-17 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2004-06-10. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.