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Well permit 171120-
Well permit · receipt 0354182A · 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 | Well Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 60.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1993-07-16 |
| First beneficial use | 1960-06-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.07850, -103.61817 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R55.0 W S6SWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 171120--A | Stock | 0.0 km | 39 ft | — | — | 1995-02-10 |
| 248406--A | Domestic | 0.23 km | 32 ft | — | — | 2003-04-10 |
| 248406- | Domestic | 0.24 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 171676- | Domestic | 0.53 km | 700 ft | — | — | — |
| 89-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.71 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 90-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.71 km | 39 ft | — | — | — |
| 91-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.71 km | 28 ft | — | — | — |
| 79696- | Domestic, Stock | 0.89 km | 45 ft | — | — | 1975-11-30 |
| 145-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.95 km | 90 ft | — | — | — |
| 146-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.95 km | 45 ft | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 1993-07-16. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.