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Well permit 17297-F
Well permit · receipt 0916449 · 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: 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 | Permit Expired |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Driller | A. E. BIGGS & SON (BIGGS, A E) |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.60775, -105.81636 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R11.0 E S19NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 285861- | Domestic, Stock | 0.37 km | 40 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 2011-06-23 |
| 199553- | Domestic, Stock | 0.69 km | — | — | — | — |
| 339587- | Domestic, Stock | 0.83 km | 56 ft | 17 ft | 10.0 gpm | 2025-11-09 |
| 218610- | Domestic, Stock | 0.9 km | — | — | — | — |
| 227436- | Domestic, Stock | 0.99 km | — | — | — | — |
| 300943- | Domestic, Stock | 1.02 km | — | — | — | — |
| 344396- | Domestic | 1.06 km | — | — | — | — |
| 24868-F | Irrigation | 1.06 km | 60 ft | 12 ft | 300.0 gpm | 1980-06-15 |
| 263441- | Domestic, Stock | 1.07 km | — | — | — | — |
| 24870-F | Irrigation | 1.07 km | 60 ft | 12 ft | 250.0 gpm | 1980-07-22 |
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.