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Well permit 89842-F

Well permit · receipt 10040324 · Division 5 · Water District 38 · Pitkin 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 depth87.0 ft
DrillerSTEVE SHELTON DRILLING, INC. (SHELTON, STEVE)
Permit issued2025-03-13
Well completed1987-08-11

Location

Coordinates39.15606, -106.78473 (GPS)
PLSSS PM, T10.0 S R84.0 W S29NENE

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
76143- Domestic 0.08 km 60 ft — — 1974-09-11
148203- Household use only 0.12 km 87 ft — — 1987-08-17
265810- Household use only 0.13 km 45 ft — 15.0 gpm 2005-10-31
65552- Household use only 0.18 km — — — —
39551-MH Monitoring/Sampling 0.26 km — — — —
109450- Household use only 0.26 km 34 ft — 25.0 gpm 1980-11-25
17636-F Domestic 0.27 km 38 ft — 25.0 gpm 1973-11-01
74951- Domestic, Stock 0.29 km 50 ft — — 1974-07-10
109450--A Domestic 0.3 km 36 ft 6 ft — 2021-09-28
0234535 Household use only 0.32 km — — — —

Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2025-03-13. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.