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Well permit 40040-F

Well permit · receipt 0331578 · Division 1 · Water District 8 · Douglas County

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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 General Purpose).

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

StatusWell Constructed
CategoryGeneral Purpose
Total depth480.0 ft
DrillerHIER DRILLING CO. (HIER, PETER J)
Permit issued1991-10-28
Well completed1984-08-07
First beneficial use1984-09-01

Location

Coordinates39.51212, -105.00737 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSS PM, T6.0 S R68.0 W S21NWSE

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 →

PermitUse DistanceDepthStatic levelYield Completed
125980- Domestic 0.06 km
27543-F Domestic 0.06 km 480 ft 1984-09-01
26564-F Domestic, Stock 0.07 km
28942-F Domestic, Irrigation 0.07 km 520 ft 15.0 gpm 1986-04-24
40041-F Domestic 0.08 km 520 ft 15.0 gpm 1986-04-24
88788-F Domestic 0.08 km
126641- Domestic, Stock 0.14 km
26364-F Domestic 0.15 km
27986-F Domestic 0.15 km 383 ft 25.0 gpm 1983-04-21
29258-F Domestic 0.15 km 355 ft 14.0 gpm 1985-11-16

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.