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Well permit 61920-F

Well permit · receipt 0530498E · Division 2 · Water District 11 · Chaffee County

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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 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

StatusWell Constructed
CategoryGeneral Purpose
Total depth118.0 ft
DrillerSTEVE SHELTON DRILLING, INC. (SHELTON, STEVE)
Permit issued2004-11-02
Well completed2003-06-12

Location

Coordinates38.84497, -106.16641 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSS PM, T14.0 S R79.0 W S12NESE

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 →

PermitUse DistanceDepthStatic levelYield Completed
250847- Household use only 0.0 km 118 ft — 12.0 gpm 2003-06-12
2003015-AB Other 0.06 km — — — —
77312- Household use only 0.06 km 85 ft — — 1974-12-07
47015-F Domestic 0.09 km 80 ft — — 1974-03-12
302061- Household use only 0.09 km 120 ft 50 ft — 2018-07-19
71389- Household use only 0.09 km 80 ft — 13.0 gpm 1974-03-02
340131- Household use only 0.11 km 120 ft 56 ft 12.0 gpm 2025-10-01
114885- Household use only 0.12 km 70 ft — — 1980-12-28
235660- Household use only 0.14 km 117 ft — 12.0 gpm 2003-07-30
170569- Household use only 0.15 km 133 ft — 15.0 gpm 1993-08-11

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.