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Well permit 277481-
Well permit · receipt 3629008A · 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, Stock (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 | 2008-05-12 |
| First beneficial use | 1940-05-31 |
| Well plugged | 2008-12-23 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.96717, -103.64744 (User supplied) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T24.0 S R56.0 W S14NENW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 244406- | Domestic, Stock | 0.04 km | — | — | — | — |
| 277481--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.06 km | 500 ft | — | — | 2008-12-20 |
| 294602- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.23 km | — | — | — | — |
| 153-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.87 km | 38 ft | — | — | — |
| 236151- | Domestic, Stock | 0.96 km | 660 ft | — | — | 1981-02-23 |
| 241596- | Domestic, Stock | 1.01 km | 230 ft | — | — | 2002-08-15 |
| 241597- | Domestic, Stock | 1.02 km | 528 ft | — | — | 2002-08-25 |
| 118384- | Domestic | 1.02 km | 660 ft | — | — | 1981-02-23 |
| 235327- | Domestic, Stock | 1.15 km | 610 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2002-02-20 |
| 243994- | Household use only | 1.27 km | 602 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 2002-11-11 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2009-07-02. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.