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Well permit 242774-
Well permit · receipt 0495825A · Division 2 · Water District 17 · Otero 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 (category Residential).
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 Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 35.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 2002-08-01 |
| First beneficial use | 1941-08-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.04253, -103.71366 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R56.0 W S18SESE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 242774--A | Domestic | 0.0 km | 37 ft | — | 44.0 gpm | 2004-07-22 |
| 1757-R | Domestic, Irrigation | 0.05 km | 33 ft | — | — | — |
| 6134- | Domestic | 0.05 km | 26 ft | — | — | 1960-06-16 |
| 19851- | Domestic | 0.05 km | 26 ft | — | — | 1964-05-25 |
| 168-WCB | Irrigation | 0.23 km | 33 ft | — | — | 1956-05-18 |
| 12026-AD | Household use only | 0.25 km | — | — | — | — |
| 191269- | Domestic | 0.25 km | 48 ft | — | — | — |
| 15055- | Domestic | 0.36 km | 38 ft | — | — | 1963-07-21 |
| 37694- | Domestic | 0.36 km | 28 ft | — | — | 1969-05-30 |
| 730-R | Industrial | 0.37 km | 895 ft | — | 43.0 gpm | — |
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.