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Well permit 4538-AD

Well permit · receipt 0046242P · Division 2 · Water District 16 · Huerfano County

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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: Other (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

StatusApplication Denied
CategoryGeneral Purpose

Location

Coordinates37.54311, -104.85209 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSS PM, T29.0 S R67.0 W S11NENE

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 →

PermitUse DistanceDepthStatic levelYield Completed
278912- Domestic 0.17 km — — — —
4559-AD Other 0.53 km — — — —
305447- Domestic, Stock 0.6 km 670 ft 336 ft 3.6 gpm 2017-10-14
233488- Household use only 0.83 km 725 ft — 6.0 gpm 2001-07-09
233488--A Household use only 0.83 km 392 ft — 10.0 gpm 2008-07-28
215706- Household use only 0.93 km 220 ft — 3.0 gpm 1999-05-13
337580- Domestic, Stock 0.93 km — — — —
329814- Domestic, Stock 1.02 km 770 ft 543 ft — 2023-11-08
271136- Domestic, Stock 1.04 km 695 ft — 1.5 gpm 2007-03-12
250308- Domestic 1.16 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.