Hydrohistorian
Well permit 605-R-R
Well permit · receipt 0085033 · 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 Canceled |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 100.0 ft |
| Driller | COOPER DRILLING INC. (COOPER, JAMES G) |
| Permit issued | 1977-10-05 |
| Well completed | 1978-01-12 |
| First beneficial use | 1930-08-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.70114, -106.07087 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R8.0 E S23NWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 606-R-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 100 ft | — | 1200.0 gpm | 1978-01-12 |
| 605-R | Irrigation | 0.28 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 606-R | Irrigation | 0.28 km | 100 ft | — | — | — |
| 60537- | Domestic, Stock | 0.43 km | — | — | — | — |
| 5510-F | Irrigation | 0.44 km | 104 ft | — | — | — |
| 334618- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.46 km | 55 ft | 35 ft | — | 2023-05-12 |
| 54-R | Irrigation | 0.5 km | 94 ft | — | — | — |
| 53-R | Irrigation | 0.56 km | 90 ft | — | — | — |
| 64142-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.58 km | — | — | — | — |
| 64735-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.58 km | — | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2001-04-13. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.