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Well permit 277254-
Well permit · receipt 3628195A · Division 2 · Water District 17 · Otero 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: Domestic (category Residential).
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 | Residential |
| Permit issued | 2008-04-21 |
| First beneficial use | 1906-12-31 |
| Well plugged | 2008-05-19 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.06979, -103.75619 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R57.0 W S2SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 277254--A | Domestic | 0.02 km | 40 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 2008-04-24 |
| 96573--A | Domestic | 0.07 km | — | — | — | — |
| 96573- | Domestic | 0.07 km | 44 ft | — | — | 1978-03-15 |
| 246038- | Domestic | 0.21 km | 50 ft | — | — | — |
| 7365- | Domestic, Stock | 0.27 km | 55 ft | — | — | 1960-10-29 |
| 40926- | Domestic | 0.35 km | 41 ft | — | — | 1970-04-22 |
| 10212-R | Irrigation | 0.43 km | 36 ft | — | — | 1944-05-31 |
| 5449-AD | Irrigation | 0.45 km | — | — | — | — |
| 231937- | Stock | 0.45 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 231937--A | Stock | 0.46 km | — | — | — | — |
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.