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Well permit 255533-
Well permit · receipt 0521099A · 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 | 2004-03-03 |
| First beneficial use | 1945-05-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.12973, -104.02085 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T22.0 S R59.0 W S16SWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 255533--A | Domestic | 0.0 km | 27 ft | — | — | 2004-08-20 |
| 59696-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.27 km | — | — | — | — |
| 757-R-R | Municipal, Other | 0.32 km | 31 ft | — | 250.0 gpm | 1975-11-01 |
| 330930- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.32 km | 25 ft | — | — | 2023-04-17 |
| 7650-AD | Household use only | 0.33 km | — | — | — | — |
| 282881- | Irrigation | 0.33 km | 28 ft | — | — | — |
| 757-R | Municipal, Other | 0.33 km | 25 ft | — | — | — |
| 3283-F | Irrigation | 0.33 km | 36 ft | — | — | 1961-07-27 |
| 11798-R | Irrigation | 0.33 km | — | — | — | — |
| 262271- | Domestic | 0.34 km | 37 ft | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2004-03-03. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.