Hydrohistorian
Well permit 12496-F-R
Well permit · receipt 0201308 · Division 1 · Water District 8 · Douglas County
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: Municipal (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 | Well Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 730.0 ft |
| Driller | JAMES DRILLING COMPANY (KEATON, MICHAEL K.) |
| Permit issued | 1981-02-21 |
| Well completed | 1980-10-15 |
| First beneficial use | 1981-03-09 |
| Well plugged | 1992-06-08 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.26561, -104.97793 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T9.0 S R68.0 W S14NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12496-F-R | Municipal | 0.03 km | 730 ft | — | — | 1992-05-23 |
| 12476-F | Municipal | 0.03 km | — | — | — | — |
| 12496-F-R | Municipal | 0.03 km | 750 ft | 119 ft | — | 2022-11-12 |
| 0201308A | Commercial | 0.1 km | — | — | — | — |
| 32601- | Domestic | 0.1 km | 564 ft | — | — | 1968-03-06 |
| 2105-AD | Irrigation | 0.18 km | — | — | — | — |
| 12496-F | Municipal | 0.19 km | 532 ft | — | — | 1967-10-06 |
| 4004456-DW | Dewatering Well (Notice of Intent) | 0.28 km | — | — | — | — |
| 45865-F | Domestic, Irrigation | 0.29 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0308640B | Irrigation | 0.29 km | — | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2003-08-22. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.