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Well permit 251851-
Well permit · receipt 0512678A · 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 |
| Permit issued | 2003-07-22 |
| First beneficial use | 1951-05-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.05671, -103.69745 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R56.0 W S8SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 251851--A | Domestic | 0.01 km | 30 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 2004-08-04 |
| 299484- | Domestic, Stock | 0.06 km | 30 ft | — | — | 1957-08-01 |
| 299484--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.06 km | — | — | — | — |
| 22799-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.18 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1994-05-13 |
| 12025-R | Irrigation | 0.18 km | — | — | — | — |
| 74455- | Stock | 0.21 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1974-05-23 |
| 11420-R | Irrigation | 0.22 km | 32 ft | — | — | 1949-06-30 |
| 6001-F-R | Irrigation | 0.25 km | 37 ft | — | 225.0 gpm | — |
| 6001-F | Irrigation | 0.26 km | 34 ft | — | 500.0 gpm | 1964-08-08 |
| 243523- | Domestic | 0.28 km | 35 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.