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Well permit 78187--A
Well permit · receipt 0058832 · Division 1 · Water District 7 · 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 Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 80.0 ft |
| Driller | C. R. SMITH DRILLING (SMITH, CALVIN R.) |
| Permit issued | 1975-02-28 |
| Well completed | 1975-04-15 |
| First beneficial use | 1975-04-17 |
| Permit expires | 1977-02-28 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.86628, -105.46559 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T2.0 S R72.0 W S20NENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78187--A | Domestic | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 78187- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 80 ft | — | — | — |
| 5386-AD | Commercial | 0.03 km | — | — | — | — |
| 21747-F | Commercial | 0.03 km | 105 ft | — | — | 1976-11-17 |
| 52463-F | Commercial | 0.03 km | 105 ft | — | 5.0 gpm | 1976-11-17 |
| 276003- | Commercial | 0.03 km | 420 ft | — | — | 2007-12-20 |
| 5263- | Domestic | 0.04 km | 144 ft | — | — | 1960-02-03 |
| 30590- | Domestic | 0.04 km | 155 ft | — | 7.0 gpm | 1968-01-12 |
| 30592- | Domestic | 0.04 km | 100 ft | — | — | — |
| 32981- | Domestic | 0.04 km | 95 ft | — | — | 1968-02-07 |
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.