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Well permit 47540-F
Well permit · receipt 0405850 · Division 3 · Water District 35 · Costilla 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: Household use only (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
| Status | Well Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 300.0 ft |
| Driller | GROUND EXPLORATION LLC (BENDER, JOSEPH T.) |
| Permit issued | 1996-11-07 |
| Well completed | 1996-08-28 |
| First beneficial use | 1997-08-01 |
| Permit expires | 1998-11-07 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.33483, -105.40176 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T31.0 S R72.0 W S23NWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47540-F-R | Household use only | 0.0 km | 304 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 2000-07-10 |
| 100775- | Household use only | 0.14 km | 220 ft | — | — | — |
| 79940-F | Household use only | 0.14 km | 320 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2016-08-04 |
| 71394- | Household use only | 0.22 km | 280 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1973-11-21 |
| 93063-VE | Household use only | 0.23 km | — | — | — | — |
| 11971-AD | Commercial | 0.27 km | — | — | — | — |
| 29051-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.31 km | 300 ft | — | — | 1996-08-28 |
| 51660- | Domestic | 0.4 km | 280 ft | — | — | 1972-03-07 |
| 4196-F | Irrigation | 0.47 km | 1,100 ft | — | — | 1963-06-27 |
| 468-AD | Irrigation | 0.55 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.