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Well permit 16324--A
Well permit · receipt 0055347 · Division 1 · Water District 6 · Gilpin 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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 85.0 ft |
| Driller | C. R. SMITH DRILLING (SMITH, CALVIN R.) |
| Permit issued | 1974-09-05 |
| Well completed | 1975-08-22 |
| First beneficial use | 1975-08-22 |
| Well plugged | 2006-02-28 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.88978, -105.50651 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T2.0 S R73.0 W S12SWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16324- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 50 ft | — | — | 1963-07-13 |
| 180882- | Household use only | 0.02 km | 140 ft | — | — | 1994-10-14 |
| 234910- | Household use only | 0.04 km | 400 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 2001-08-07 |
| 16324--A | Household use only | 0.06 km | 260 ft | — | 7.0 gpm | 2006-01-10 |
| 267556- | Household use only | 0.07 km | 302 ft | — | — | 2006-04-10 |
| 243109--A | Domestic | 0.09 km | 180 ft | — | 4.5 gpm | 2002-10-09 |
| 30593--A | Domestic | 0.09 km | — | — | — | — |
| 243109- | Domestic | 0.11 km | — | — | — | — |
| 127677- | Household use only | 0.12 km | 160 ft | — | — | 1982-11-22 |
| 128319- | Household use only | 0.13 km | — | — | — | 1984-03-02 |
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.