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Well permit 21-G

Well permit · receipt 0271844A · Division 4 · Water District 68 · Ouray 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: Other (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

StatusPermit Expired
CategoryGeneral Purpose
Total depth300.0 ft
DrillerB & B DRILLING (JONES JR., BRUCE G.)
Permit issued1987-02-19
Well completed1988-04-25

Location

Coordinates38.01983, -107.67706 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSN PM, T44.0 N R7.0 W S31NWSW

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 →

PermitUse DistanceDepthStatic levelYield Completed
31-G Commercial 0.08 km — — — —
37140-M Monitoring/Sampling 0.08 km 300 ft — — 1987-12-06
37143-M Monitoring/Sampling 0.11 km 300 ft — — 1988-04-21
37141-M Monitoring/Sampling 0.13 km 300 ft — — 1987-11-15
25-G Other 0.16 km 300 ft — — 1988-04-21
24-G Other 0.17 km 345 ft — — 1987-11-23
37142-M Monitoring/Sampling 0.22 km 345 ft — — 1987-11-23
10047959 Domestic 0.48 km — — — —
50860- Domestic, Stock 0.54 km 3 ft — — 1964-06-01
4000213-MH Monitoring Hole (Notice of Intent) 0.93 km 13 ft — — 2023-08-16

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.