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Well permit 51168-F

Well permit · receipt 0438825B · 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 depth860.0 ft
DrillerCAN-AMERICA DRILLING, INC. (ARDE, WAYNE A.)
Permit issued1998-12-17
Well completed1998-10-19
Permit expires2000-12-17

Location

Coordinates39.54122, -104.70298 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSS PM, T6.0 S R65.0 W S7NESE

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
98477-VE Domestic 0.0 km 860 ft 1998-10-19
50335-F Domestic 0.0 km
98478-VE Domestic 0.09 km
50408-F Domestic 0.09 km
96525-VE Domestic 0.1 km
47465-F Domestic 0.1 km
47719-F Domestic 0.11 km 860 ft 13.0 gpm 1996-11-12
51169-F Domestic 0.11 km 820 ft 6.5 gpm 1998-10-20
54661-F Domestic, Irrigation 0.13 km 605 ft 14.0 gpm 2001-10-15
97015-VE Domestic 0.15 km 833 ft 1997-01-22

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.