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Well permit 1768-AD
Well permit · receipt 0917254 · 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 | Application Denied |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Driller | SPENCER, D W |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.44824, -106.09400 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T37.0 N R8.0 E S15NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 870-F-R | Irrigation | 0.01 km | 355 ft | — | 100.0 gpm | 1970-07-01 |
| 870-R-R | Irrigation | 0.06 km | — | — | — | — |
| 325019--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.08 km | — | — | — | — |
| 325019- | Domestic, Stock | 0.08 km | 550 ft | — | — | 1943-12-31 |
| 325019--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.08 km | — | — | — | — |
| 11487-R | Irrigation | 0.26 km | 355 ft | — | — | 1942-06-06 |
| 11488-R | Irrigation | 0.26 km | 340 ft | — | — | 1942-06-06 |
| 11489-R | Irrigation | 0.26 km | 340 ft | — | — | 1946-02-10 |
| 321247- | Domestic, Stock | 0.27 km | 300 ft | — | — | 1920-12-31 |
| 321247--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.35 km | 320 ft | 38 ft | — | 2021-05-13 |
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.