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Well permit 159000-
Well permit · receipt 0319089 · Division 2 · Water District 11 · Chaffee 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 | 285.0 ft |
| Driller | WERNER DRILLING & EXCAVATING (WERNER, RICHARD E.) |
| Permit issued | 1990-12-13 |
| Well completed | 1991-05-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.72483, -106.13488 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T15.0 S R78.0 W S20SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 204647- | Household use only | 0.24 km | 325 ft | — | — | 1997-06-11 |
| 140399- | Domestic | 0.26 km | 320 ft | — | 9.0 gpm | 1987-05-20 |
| 50956-F | Domestic | 0.29 km | 430 ft | — | 6.0 gpm | 1999-09-05 |
| 121066- | Household use only | 0.35 km | — | — | — | — |
| 256951- | Household use only | 0.38 km | 335 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | — |
| 120803- | Household use only | 0.4 km | — | — | — | — |
| 238594- | Domestic | 0.4 km | 383 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2002-04-08 |
| 120802- | Household use only | 0.42 km | — | — | — | — |
| 216919- | Domestic, Stock | 0.42 km | 331 ft | — | 5.0 gpm | 1999-06-08 |
| 58897-F | Domestic | 0.45 km | 320 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 2003-07-24 |
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.