Hydrohistorian
Well permit 5949-R-R
Well permit · receipt 0056668 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Rio Grande 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 | Permit Expired |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Permit issued | 1974-12-26 |
| Permit expires | 1975-12-26 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.68657, -106.12591 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R8.0 E S29SWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5949-R-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 92 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 1975-03-17 |
| 5949-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 92 ft | — | — | — |
| 6303-R | Irrigation | 0.52 km | 100 ft | — | — | 1954-04-04 |
| 6302-R | Irrigation | 0.57 km | 101 ft | — | 1170.0 gpm | 1972-06-11 |
| 116-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.57 km | 145 ft | — | — | — |
| 259-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.57 km | 103 ft | — | — | — |
| 47688-F | Commercial, Irrigation | 0.61 km | — | — | — | — |
| 6998-R | Irrigation | 0.61 km | 68 ft | — | — | 1954-11-30 |
| 35736- | Domestic | 0.61 km | 52 ft | — | — | 1968-11-02 |
| 251056- | Domestic, Stock | 0.62 km | 140 ft | — | — | 2003-08-25 |
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.