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Well permit 54791--A
Well permit · receipt 0072506A · Division 1 · Water District 1 · Elbert 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: Stock (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 | 207.0 ft |
| Driller | HIER DRILLING CO. (HIER, PETER J) |
| Permit issued | 1976-08-17 |
| Well completed | 1976-07-21 |
| First beneficial use | 1976-08-01 |
| Permit expires | 1978-08-17 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.23932, -104.60715 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T9.0 S R65.0 W S25SENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54791- | Stock | 0.0 km | 140 ft | — | — | 1972-05-16 |
| 342096- | Domestic | 0.36 km | 335 ft | 190 ft | 12.0 gpm | 2026-03-12 |
| 16965- | Domestic | 0.39 km | — | — | — | — |
| 25802- | Domestic | 0.39 km | 333 ft | — | — | 1965-08-08 |
| 54181- | Domestic | 0.6 km | — | — | — | — |
| 181996- | Domestic, Stock | 0.65 km | — | — | — | — |
| 181995- | Domestic, Stock | 0.86 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0226641 | Stock | 0.92 km | — | — | — | — |
| 181997- | Domestic, Stock | 1.06 km | — | — | — | — |
| 274100- | Domestic, Stock | 1.11 km | 295 ft | — | 13.0 gpm | 2007-07-17 |
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.