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Well permit 162457--A
Well permit · receipt 0329379B · 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: 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 | 645.0 ft |
| Driller | HOFFMAN (HOFFMAN, EARL) |
| Permit issued | 1991-11-25 |
| Well completed | 1991-09-22 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.94943, -103.59016 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T24.0 S R55.0 W S20SWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91372-VE | Domestic | 0.0 km | 625 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1991-09-22 |
| 162457- | Domestic | 0.01 km | 650 ft | — | — | — |
| 96072- | Domestic | 0.32 km | 570 ft | — | — | 1978-02-27 |
| 161669- | Domestic | 0.44 km | 600 ft | — | — | — |
| 161669--A | Domestic | 0.44 km | 650 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1991-09-25 |
| 29248- | Stock | 0.73 km | 538 ft | — | — | 1966-11-05 |
| 23485- | Domestic | 0.82 km | — | — | — | — |
| 29409- | Domestic | 0.82 km | 582 ft | — | — | 1966-12-10 |
| 168384- | Domestic, Stock | 0.99 km | — | — | — | — |
| 235857- | Domestic, Stock | 1.24 km | 526 ft | — | — | 2004-02-25 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2008-01-14. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.