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Well permit 159339-
Well permit · receipt 0320783 · Division 5 · Water District 38 · Garfield 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 | 245.0 ft |
| Driller | MCPHERSON DRILLING COMPANY (MCPHERSON, BENNY DON) |
| Permit issued | 1991-02-05 |
| Well completed | 1991-09-02 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.49243, -107.18774 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T6.0 S R88.0 W S35SWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 249833- | Domestic | 0.42 km | — | — | — | — |
| 283157- | Domestic | 0.42 km | — | — | — | — |
| 250297- | Domestic | 0.62 km | 160 ft | — | — | 2003-05-21 |
| 250167- | Domestic | 0.65 km | 240 ft | — | — | 1967-08-04 |
| 102213- | Domestic | 0.74 km | 395 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1978-07-17 |
| 151987- | Domestic | 0.76 km | 100 ft | — | — | 1988-09-22 |
| 252563- | Domestic | 0.79 km | 163 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2003-05-21 |
| 31598- | Domestic | 0.84 km | 240 ft | — | — | 1967-08-04 |
| 327535- | Domestic | 0.9 km | 428 ft | 326 ft | 11.0 gpm | 2022-10-13 |
| 109309- | Domestic | 0.91 km | — | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2023-08-16. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.