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Well permit 5441-AD

Well permit · receipt 0058008 · Division 2 · Water District 17 · Otero 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

Coordinates38.00634, -103.54900 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSS PM, T23.0 S R55.0 W S34SENE

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
17534-F-R Domestic 0.06 km 779 ft — — 1984-07-18
14296-AD Commercial 0.06 km — — — —
6703-AD Household use only 0.21 km — — — —
77330- Stock 0.23 km 45 ft — — 1974-12-10
216280- Domestic 0.25 km 40 ft — — —
249061- Domestic 0.25 km 35 ft — — —
216280--A Domestic 0.27 km — — — —
195458- Domestic 0.39 km 36 ft — — —
278047--A Domestic, Stock 0.4 km 35 ft — — 2010-06-05
15501-R Irrigation 0.4 km 35 ft — — 1955-02-01

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.