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Well permit 159897-
Well permit · receipt 0322835 · Division 2 · Water District 17 · Otero 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: 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 | Permit Issued |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Driller | EASTWOOD DRILLING (EASTWOOD, FRANCIS) |
| Permit issued | 1991-04-30 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.03118, -103.87878 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R58.0 W S22NESE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18153-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.3 km | — | — | — | — |
| 75407- | Stock | 1.28 km | — | — | — | — |
| 19099-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 1.37 km | — | — | — | — |
| 11944-TH | Monitoring/Sampling | 2.01 km | — | — | — | — |
| 18152-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 2.61 km | — | — | — | — |
| 19106-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 2.62 km | — | — | — | — |
| 159896- | Stock | 2.64 km | — | — | — | — |
| 164958- | Stock | 2.65 km | 32 ft | — | — | 1992-05-28 |
| 22161- | Stock | 3.02 km | 1,345 ft | — | — | 1965-01-02 |
| 18679- | Domestic | 3.42 km | 29 ft | 14 ft | — | 1964-06-30 |
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.