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Well permit 24937-F
Well permit · receipt 0205776 · 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: Commercial (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 Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 92.0 ft |
| Driller | IRRIGATION ENGINEERING & SUPP (MERIWETHER, GEORGE D.) |
| Permit issued | 1980-07-03 |
| Well completed | 1981-06-02 |
| First beneficial use | 1981-06-12 |
| Permit expires | 1982-07-03 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.63966, -106.10170 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R8.0 E S9NWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.1 km | 64 ft | — | — | — |
| 105-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.1 km | 75 ft | — | — | — |
| 185-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.1 km | 84 ft | — | — | — |
| 8439-R | Irrigation | 0.14 km | 60 ft | — | — | 1936-04-01 |
| 8438-R | Irrigation | 0.15 km | 84 ft | — | — | 1956-03-31 |
| 202677- | Fire | 0.23 km | 85 ft | — | — | 1984-10-11 |
| 24937-F-R | Commercial | 0.24 km | 85 ft | — | — | 1984-10-11 |
| 10854-AD | Commercial | 0.28 km | — | — | — | — |
| 328432- | Commercial | 0.31 km | — | — | — | — |
| 32002-F | Irrigation | 0.35 km | 80 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 1987-05-25 |
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.