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Well permit 38705-
Well permit · receipt 0903257 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Rio Grande 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 | Permit Expired |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Driller | SMITH DRILLING (SMITH, F R) |
| Permit issued | 1969-07-22 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.58124, -106.19388 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R7.0 E S34NWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 121598--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.05 km | 95 ft | — | — | 1995-10-20 |
| 121598- | Domestic | 0.12 km | 90 ft | — | 20.0 gpm | 1981-01-23 |
| 30511-F | Domestic | 0.12 km | — | — | — | — |
| 32686-F | Domestic | 0.14 km | 180 ft | — | 20.0 gpm | 1988-01-03 |
| 26844-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.15 km | — | — | — | — |
| 60472- | Domestic | 0.26 km | — | — | — | — |
| 142198- | Stock | 0.31 km | 70 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1986-11-01 |
| 331583--A | Domestic | 0.41 km | 120 ft | 56 ft | 15.0 gpm | 2024-06-25 |
| 60471- | Domestic | 0.41 km | 55 ft | — | — | — |
| 258-R | Irrigation | 0.42 km | 35 ft | — | — | — |
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.