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Well permit 261785-
Well permit · receipt 0535060A · 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, Stock (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 | 2005-02-14 |
| First beneficial use | 1930-05-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.16288, -103.52287 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T22.0 S R55.0 W S1NESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 261785--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.04 km | 35 ft | — | 9.0 gpm | 2006-12-16 |
| 101-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.46 km | 27 ft | — | — | — |
| 4469- | Stock | 1.62 km | 15 ft | — | — | 1959-07-08 |
| 84-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 2.01 km | 43 ft | — | — | — |
| 326979- | Stock | 2.23 km | — | — | — | — |
| 222767- | Stock | 2.69 km | — | — | — | — |
| 222767--A | Stock | 2.7 km | — | — | — | — |
| 291238- | Domestic, Stock | 2.86 km | 39 ft | — | — | 1954-01-01 |
| 291238--A | Domestic, Stock | 2.87 km | 40 ft | — | — | 2013-05-03 |
| 88818- | Domestic, Stock | 3.4 km | 25 ft | — | — | 1920-12-31 |
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.