Hydrohistorian
Well permit 245917-
Well permit · receipt 0499858 · 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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 25.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 2002-11-21 |
| First beneficial use | 1950-07-01 |
| Well plugged | 2003-07-07 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.99743, -103.54623 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R55.0 W 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 →
| Permit | Use | Distance | Depth | Static level | Yield | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 245917--A | Domestic | 0.0 km | 42 ft | — | — | 2003-03-30 |
| 7715-AD | Household use only | 0.03 km | — | — | — | — |
| 7165-AD | Municipal | 0.14 km | — | — | — | — |
| 14392-R | Municipal | 0.17 km | — | — | — | — |
| 14392-R-R | Municipal | 0.18 km | 41 ft | — | 1200.0 gpm | 1992-02-25 |
| 14390-R | Municipal | 0.23 km | 45 ft | — | — | 1950-11-30 |
| 14390-R-R | Municipal | 0.24 km | 39 ft | — | 750.0 gpm | 1994-03-07 |
| 8881-F | Municipal | 0.27 km | 43 ft | — | — | 1958-05-31 |
| 14391-R | Municipal | 0.27 km | 45 ft | — | — | 1972-10-22 |
| 14942-R | Irrigation | 0.27 km | — | — | — | — |
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.