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Well permit 17980--A
Well permit · receipt 0111141 · Division 2 · Water District 11 · Chaffee 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: 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 | 40.0 ft |
| Driller | TWIN LAKES DRILLING CO. (SCHAFFER, JAMES O) |
| Permit issued | 1979-09-20 |
| Well completed | 1981-02-19 |
| Permit expires | 1981-09-20 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.81566, -106.19938 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T14.0 S R79.0 W S23NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17980--A | Domestic | 0.0 km | 40 ft | — | 3.0 gpm | — |
| 64925- | Household use only | 0.02 km | 42 ft | — | — | 1973-04-10 |
| 75355- | Household use only | 0.08 km | 85 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1975-01-18 |
| 60158--A | Domestic | 0.09 km | — | — | — | — |
| 8857- | Domestic | 0.09 km | 25 ft | — | — | 1961-06-04 |
| 17980- | Domestic | 0.09 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1963-10-01 |
| 23662- | Domestic | 0.09 km | 37 ft | — | — | 1965-06-05 |
| 41386- | Domestic | 0.09 km | 73 ft | — | — | 1970-06-10 |
| 49098- | Domestic | 0.09 km | 70 ft | — | — | 1972-01-26 |
| 195562- | Household use only | 0.1 km | 103 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1996-07-18 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2011-10-17. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.