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Well permit 158271-
Well permit · receipt 0317271 · Division 5 · Water District 51 · Grand 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 | 495.0 ft |
| Driller | MCPHERSON DRILLING COMPANY (MCPHERSON, BENNY DON) |
| Permit issued | 1990-09-26 |
| Well completed | 1990-10-12 |
Location
| Coordinates | 40.15869, -105.99032 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T2.0 N R77.0 W S2SESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91289- | Household use only | 0.19 km | 230 ft | — | — | 1977-06-28 |
| 10473-R | Commercial | 0.25 km | — | — | — | — |
| 338326- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.3 km | 802 ft | 180 ft | — | 2025-06-06 |
| 340549- | Household use only | 0.31 km | 802 ft | 180 ft | — | 2025-06-06 |
| 258538--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.32 km | 16 ft | — | 13.5 gpm | — |
| 7818- | Stock | 0.32 km | 2,068 ft | — | — | 1960-12-12 |
| 50940-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.37 km | 11 ft | — | — | 2012-10-20 |
| 258538- | Domestic | 0.38 km | 303 ft | — | — | 2005-06-29 |
| 77326-F | General Purpose | 0.42 km | — | — | — | — |
| 80107-F | Other | 0.42 km | 10 ft | — | — | 1953-09-30 |
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.