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Well permit 55735-F

Well permit · receipt 0475500B · Division 2 · Water District 11 · Chaffee 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 Replaced - Abandonment Required
CategoryGeneral Purpose
Total depth108.0 ft
DrillerTWIN LAKES DRILLING CO. (SCHAFFER, JAMES O)
Permit issued2001-05-10
Well completed1979-02-21
Permit expires2003-05-10

Location

Coordinates38.58389, -106.06308 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSN PM, T50.0 N R8.0 E S15NESE

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
101288- Household use only 0.0 km 108 ft — — 1979-02-21
55735-F-R Domestic 0.0 km 400 ft — 10.0 gpm 2003-05-01
44089-F Domestic 0.08 km 119 ft — 12.0 gpm 1994-10-07
49695-F Household use only 0.12 km — — — —
51611-F Domestic 0.12 km 60 ft — 12.0 gpm 2000-02-17
62081-F Domestic 0.18 km 235 ft — 7.0 gpm 2005-02-24
66694-F Domestic 0.18 km 180 ft — 9.0 gpm 2008-01-03
44544-F Household use only 0.2 km 190 ft — 10.0 gpm 1995-05-22
88543-F Domestic 0.2 km — — — —
78402- Household use only 0.21 km 77 ft — — —

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.