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Well permit 53739-F

Well permit · receipt 0460240E · Division 3 · Water District 24 · Costilla 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: Other (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 depth48.0 ft
DrillerLAYNE, CHRISTENSEN CO. (TORMOEHLEN, DAVID A.)
Permit issued2000-05-12
Well completed2000-03-22
Permit expires2002-05-12

Location

Coordinates37.25474, -105.34282 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSS PM, T32.0 S R71.0 W S20NENE

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
210875- Monitoring/Sampling 0.05 km — — — —
53740-F Other 0.05 km 63 ft — — 2000-03-21
11963-AD Commercial 0.08 km — — — —
312892- Monitoring/Sampling 0.08 km 40 ft — — 2018-12-27
32315-MH Monitoring/Sampling 0.1 km — — — —
35153-MH Monitoring/Sampling 0.1 km 97 ft — — 1999-01-12
37767-MH Monitoring/Sampling 0.1 km — — — —
52743-F Other 0.12 km — — — 1999-01-08
218876- Monitoring/Sampling 0.13 km 46 ft — — 1999-01-12
33223-M Monitoring/Sampling 0.15 km 304 ft — — 1987-11-06

Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2026-06-04. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.