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Well permit 255970-
Well permit · receipt 0521067A · 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 | 580.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 2004-03-22 |
| First beneficial use | 1958-05-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.98347, -103.50091 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T24.0 S R54.0 W S6SESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 255970--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.0 km | 525 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 2005-05-31 |
| 24860- | Domestic, Stock | 0.3 km | 590 ft | — | — | 1965-08-12 |
| 280962- | Domestic, Stock | 0.36 km | — | — | — | — |
| 255193- | Domestic, Stock | 0.44 km | 501 ft | — | — | 2005-06-11 |
| 61649- | Domestic | 0.51 km | — | — | — | — |
| 34212- | Domestic | 0.55 km | 455 ft | — | — | 1968-08-24 |
| 308961- | Commercial | 0.62 km | 585 ft | — | 13.0 gpm | 1979-04-15 |
| 104672- | Commercial | 0.65 km | 585 ft | — | 13.0 gpm | 1979-04-15 |
| 63979-F | Commercial | 0.65 km | 585 ft | — | — | 1979-04-15 |
| 26758- | Domestic | 0.75 km | 410 ft | — | — | 1966-04-20 |
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.