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Well permit 46438-F

Well permit · receipt 0398559 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Mineral 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 depth240.0 ft
DrillerL D SPENCER DRILLING & PUMP (SPENCER, LONNIE D.)
Permit issued1996-04-22
Well completed1997-08-05
First beneficial use1997-11-10
Permit expires1998-04-22

Location

Coordinates37.81475, -106.94387 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSN PM, T41.0 N R1.0 W S11NESE

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
44751-F Domestic 0.17 km 100 ft — — 1995-11-10
60219-F Domestic 0.21 km 80 ft — 15.0 gpm 2004-05-24
47291-F Domestic 0.31 km 63 ft — 15.0 gpm 1997-10-03
340489- Household use only 0.39 km — — — —
81705-F Household use only 0.41 km 180 ft 140 ft 8.0 gpm 2018-03-16
272608- Household use only 0.42 km 100 ft — 11.5 gpm 2007-04-18
283727- Domestic, Stock 0.42 km 100 ft — 30.0 gpm 2010-09-17
81591-F Domestic 0.42 km 100 ft 21 ft — 2018-11-21
33769-MH Monitoring/Sampling 0.43 km 80 ft — — 1998-07-02
0109947 Household use only 0.43 km — — — —

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.