Hydrohistorian
Well permit 5976-R-R
Well permit · receipt 0916300 · 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: Irrigation (category General Purpose).
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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 88.0 ft |
| Driller | M & G DRILLING & SUPPLY (MERRIFIELD, C E) |
| Permit issued | 1966-04-15 |
| Well completed | 1966-04-22 |
| Well plugged | 1982-08-20 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.72093, -106.13732 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R8.0 E S7SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5976-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 22177-F | Irrigation | 0.24 km | — | — | — | 1964-08-31 |
| 5976-R-R | Irrigation | 0.28 km | 93 ft | 13 ft | — | 1977-04-06 |
| 5976-R-R | Irrigation | 0.28 km | — | — | — | — |
| 3041-F | Irrigation | 0.29 km | 91 ft | — | — | 1961-03-31 |
| 192847- | Domestic, Stock | 0.33 km | 200 ft | — | — | 1998-02-12 |
| 84149- | Domestic | 0.49 km | — | — | — | — |
| 86819-F | Commercial | 0.49 km | 190 ft | — | — | 1986-11-22 |
| 146898- | Domestic | 0.49 km | 190 ft | — | — | 1986-11-22 |
| 60267- | Domestic | 0.58 km | 60 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.