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Well permit 24642-
Well permit · receipt 0901966 · 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: 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 | Permit Expired |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Driller | CATES DRILING (CATES, ERCEL C) |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.05336, -103.54867 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R55.0 W S15NENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31475- | Stock | 1.66 km | 50 ft | — | — | 1967-09-25 |
| 20692-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 1.71 km | — | — | — | — |
| 304875- | Domestic | 1.71 km | 28 ft | 18 ft | — | 2019-02-25 |
| 24492- | Domestic | 1.71 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1965-07-06 |
| 29180- | Domestic | 1.8 km | 775 ft | — | — | 1967-12-23 |
| 171112- | Domestic, Stock | 1.84 km | 760 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1993-09-01 |
| 11992-R-R | Irrigation | 2.4 km | 53 ft | — | 625.0 gpm | 2015-12-18 |
| 45-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 2.43 km | 38 ft | — | — | — |
| 207-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 2.68 km | 44 ft | — | — | — |
| 258-WCB | Stock | 2.68 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.