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Well permit 162805-
Well permit · receipt 0329964A · 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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Permit issued | 1992-01-27 |
| Well plugged | 1992-07-03 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.05113, -103.72557 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R56.0 W S18SWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 162805--A | Domestic | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 101998- | Domestic | 0.2 km | 30 ft | — | — | 1979-07-18 |
| 585-R-R | Irrigation | 0.23 km | 32 ft | — | — | 1959-09-16 |
| 13580-R | Irrigation | 0.23 km | — | — | — | — |
| 15622-R | Commercial | 0.33 km | — | — | — | — |
| 731-R | Industrial | 0.34 km | 790 ft | — | — | — |
| 732-R | Industrial | 0.34 km | 790 ft | — | — | 1929-11-30 |
| 279573- | Irrigation | 0.36 km | 28 ft | — | — | — |
| 279572- | Domestic | 0.38 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 112446- | Domestic | 0.46 km | 30 ft | — | — | 1934-07-07 |
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.