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Well permit 61565-F
Well permit · receipt 0527427C · Division 2 · Water District 11 · Chaffee 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, Stock (category General Purpose).
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 Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 350.0 ft |
| Driller | WHITEWATER DRILLING INC (BENKUFSKI, JOHN D.) |
| Permit issued | 2004-08-25 |
| Well completed | 2004-11-12 |
| Permit expires | 2006-08-25 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.72961, -106.13764 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T15.0 S R78.0 W S20NESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52477-F-R | Domestic | 0.03 km | 560 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 2013-02-05 |
| 181948- | Household use only | 0.04 km | 220 ft | — | 5.0 gpm | 1997-04-01 |
| 52477-F | Domestic | 0.04 km | — | — | — | 1997-04-01 |
| 65048- | Domestic | 0.07 km | — | — | — | — |
| 195144- | Household use only | 0.08 km | 233 ft | — | 5.0 gpm | — |
| 47653-F | Domestic | 0.11 km | 233 ft | — | 5.0 gpm | 1996-05-04 |
| 324716- | Household use only | 0.13 km | 360 ft | 200 ft | 9.0 gpm | 2022-03-02 |
| 234223- | Household use only | 0.18 km | 327 ft | — | — | 2001-08-17 |
| 27613-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.19 km | — | — | — | — |
| 30770-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.19 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.