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Well permit 173987-
Well permit · receipt 0359157 · Division 5 · Water District 38 · Pitkin 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 | Permit Expired |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Driller | SHELTON DRILLING CORPORATION (SHELTON, WAYNE) |
| Permit issued | 1993-10-25 |
| Permit expires | 1995-10-25 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.20305, -106.87268 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T10.0 S R85.0 W S10NENW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21782-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 329536- | Domestic | 0.03 km | 360 ft | 130 ft | — | 2025-09-29 |
| 173986- | Domestic | 0.08 km | 145 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1989-07-20 |
| 152845- | Domestic | 0.09 km | 145 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1989-07-20 |
| 152845--A | Domestic | 0.09 km | — | — | — | — |
| 34483-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.2 km | — | — | — | — |
| 149253--A | Household use only | 0.26 km | 430 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2002-07-26 |
| 21681-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.27 km | 320 ft | — | — | 1993-11-24 |
| 339839- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.27 km | 504 ft | 101 ft | — | 2025-07-25 |
| 34665- | Domestic | 0.27 km | 165 ft | — | — | 1969-07-28 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2022-04-28. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.