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Well permit 40705-
Well permit · receipt 0903330 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Alamosa 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 | A. E. BIGGS & SON (BIGGS, A E) |
| Permit issued | 1970-03-26 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.69175, -106.02396 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R9.0 E S19SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10771-R | Irrigation | 0.2 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 22136-F | Irrigation | 0.25 km | 90 ft | — | — | 1977-03-25 |
| 52647- | Domestic, Stock | 0.41 km | — | — | — | — |
| 85302-F | Commercial | 0.44 km | 80 ft | — | — | 1998-03-26 |
| 45101-F | Irrigation | 0.45 km | — | — | — | — |
| 49181-F | Irrigation | 0.45 km | 80 ft | — | 800.0 gpm | 1998-03-26 |
| 10771-R-R | Irrigation | 0.45 km | 92 ft | — | — | 1966-12-05 |
| 10772-R | Irrigation | 0.49 km | 60 ft | — | — | 1937-11-30 |
| 5777-F | Irrigation | 0.51 km | 85 ft | — | — | 1964-10-23 |
| 970-R-R | Irrigation | 0.55 km | 84 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 1989-04-17 |
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.