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Well permit 51156-F

Well permit · receipt 0442849 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Rio Grande 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

StatusPermit Expired
CategoryGeneral Purpose
DrillerMITCHELL DRILLING CO. (MITCHELL JR., JOHN C.)
Permit issued1999-03-16
Permit expires2001-03-16

Location

Coordinates37.66465, -106.62095 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSN PM, T40.0 N R3.0 E S35SWSW

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
212688- Fire 0.17 km 410 ft — — 1999-09-20
51865- Domestic 0.18 km 29 ft — — 1972-07-26
51149-F Domestic 0.23 km 455 ft — 15.0 gpm 1999-06-04
52598-F Domestic 0.25 km — — — —
60173-F Domestic 0.25 km 410 ft — 13.0 gpm 1999-09-20
40279-F Domestic 0.35 km 54 ft — 15.0 gpm 1993-11-11
75036-F Domestic 0.36 km 403 ft — 15.0 gpm 2012-04-10
52606-F Domestic 0.38 km 470 ft — — 1999-12-13
48393-F Domestic 0.46 km 260 ft — 15.0 gpm 1997-09-04
45306- Domestic 0.46 km 61 ft — — 1971-04-15

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.