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Well permit 16689-F

Well permit · receipt 0916455 · Division 1 · Water District 1 · Weld County

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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 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

StatusWell Constructed
CategoryGeneral Purpose
Total depth480.0 ft
DrillerJOHN'S DRILLING INC. (JOHN, LLOYD)
Permit issued1972-11-30
Well completed1973-05-17
First beneficial use1974-04-12

Location

Coordinates40.16156, -104.99625 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSS PM, T2.0 N R68.0 W S3SWSW

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 →

PermitUse DistanceDepthStatic levelYield Completed
42128-MH Monitoring/Sampling 0.1 km 20 ft
37739- Domestic 0.1 km 26 ft 1969-05-12
251223- Monitoring/Sampling 0.14 km 20 ft 2003-07-10
160788- Commercial 0.17 km 29 ft 20.0 gpm 1991-05-21
3474-AD Other 0.2 km
3544-AD Irrigation 0.21 km
251226- Monitoring/Sampling 0.24 km 15 ft 2003-07-10
251224- Monitoring/Sampling 0.25 km 20 ft 2003-07-11
251225- Monitoring/Sampling 0.25 km 15 ft 2003-07-10
282- Domestic 0.3 km 700 ft 1957-08-28

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.