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Well permit 54040--A
Well permit · receipt 0227864 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Alamosa 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: 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 | 504.0 ft |
| Driller | IRRIGATION & CONT. SPEC. (MERRIFIELD, CLAUDE) |
| Permit issued | 1982-07-30 |
| Well completed | 1982-07-14 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.56472, -105.94297 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T38.0 N R9.0 E S1NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 206713- | Domestic | 0.05 km | 930 ft | — | — | 1935-12-31 |
| 201004- | Domestic, Stock | 0.21 km | 45 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1997-05-24 |
| 250321- | Domestic, Stock | 0.41 km | 42 ft | — | — | 2005-03-18 |
| 54040- | Domestic | 0.51 km | — | — | — | — |
| 76-WCB | Stock | 0.65 km | 800 ft | — | — | 1955-08-10 |
| 12944-R | Irrigation | 0.79 km | 103 ft | — | — | 1955-04-01 |
| 211985- | Domestic, Stock | 0.81 km | — | — | — | — |
| 49940- | Stock | 0.97 km | 30 ft | — | — | 1971-11-22 |
| 13961-AD | Irrigation | 1.08 km | — | — | — | — |
| 287410- | Domestic, Stock | 1.08 km | 60 ft | — | — | 2012-03-05 |
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.