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Well permit 57553-F
Well permit · receipt 0491672I · Division 2 · Water District 11 · Chaffee 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: Domestic, Stock (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 Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 280.0 ft |
| Driller | WHITEWATER DRILLING INC (BENKUFSKI, JOHN D.) |
| Permit issued | 2002-05-28 |
| Well completed | 2002-08-30 |
| Permit expires | 2004-05-28 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.87156, -106.15375 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T13.0 S R78.0 W S31SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57552-F | Domestic, Stock | 0.06 km | 260 ft | — | 3.0 gpm | 2002-08-29 |
| 55356-F | Domestic | 0.12 km | 248 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2002-01-10 |
| 56363-F | Domestic | 0.12 km | — | — | — | 1964-01-01 |
| 55911-F | Domestic | 0.13 km | 301 ft | — | 5.0 gpm | 2001-10-11 |
| 273516- | Household use only | 0.14 km | 360 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1976-12-31 |
| 56462-F | Domestic | 0.15 km | 305 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2001-11-15 |
| 117698- | Household use only | 0.16 km | 201 ft | — | — | 1981-08-01 |
| 83327- | Household use only | 0.16 km | — | — | — | — |
| 83463-F | Domestic | 0.16 km | — | — | — | — |
| 77543-F | Domestic | 0.18 km | 400 ft | — | 13.0 gpm | 2013-09-30 |
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.