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Well permit 66728-
Well permit · receipt 0908273 · 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 | COOPER DRILLING INC. (COOPER, JAMES G) |
| Permit issued | 1972-12-06 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.67867, -106.50951 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R4.0 E S26SESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56868- | Domestic | 0.3 km | — | — | — | — |
| 313775- | Domestic | 0.31 km | 35 ft | — | — | 1880-12-31 |
| 56870- | Domestic | 0.36 km | — | — | — | — |
| 56871- | Domestic | 0.42 km | — | — | — | — |
| 337554- | Domestic, Stock | 0.48 km | 84 ft | 25 ft | 4.0 gpm | 2025-06-02 |
| 42379- | Domestic | 0.48 km | 120 ft | — | — | 1970-09-20 |
| 64528- | Domestic | 0.5 km | 105 ft | — | — | 1973-02-01 |
| 46279- | Domestic | 0.54 km | 85 ft | — | — | 1971-05-27 |
| 11043- | Domestic | 0.55 km | 67 ft | — | — | 1962-05-22 |
| 99427--A | Domestic | 0.58 km | 45 ft | — | — | 1978-10-26 |
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.