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Well permit 157039-
Well permit · receipt 0311138 · Division 1 · Water District 2 · Weld 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, Stock (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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 57.0 ft |
| Driller | LESH DRILLING INC. (LESH JR., ED) |
| Permit issued | 1990-05-11 |
| Well completed | 1981-05-28 |
| Well plugged | 1991-03-29 |
Location
| Coordinates | 40.39521, -104.66047 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T5.0 N R65.0 W S16SESE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 157039--A | Household use only | 0.0 km | 99 ft | — | — | 1991-03-28 |
| 91074-VE | Household use only | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 119124- | Domestic, Stock | 0.09 km | 58 ft | — | — | 1981-06-01 |
| 13050-R | Irrigation | 0.19 km | — | — | — | — |
| 157029- | Domestic, Stock | 0.22 km | 100 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1990-06-25 |
| 31866-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.23 km | 73 ft | — | — | 1997-10-14 |
| 12018-R | Irrigation | 0.23 km | — | — | — | — |
| 4002924-MH | Monitoring Hole (Notice of Intent) | 0.33 km | 93 ft | — | — | 2025-05-29 |
| 19878-R | Irrigation | 0.5 km | — | — | — | — |
| 820-R-R | Irrigation | 0.51 km | 105 ft | — | — | 1966-05-10 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2025-10-20. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.