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Well permit 278047-
Well permit · receipt 3631013A · 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 |
| Total depth | 35.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 2008-07-09 |
| First beneficial use | 1921-06-30 |
| Well plugged | 2010-06-12 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.00307, -103.54667 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R55.0 W S34NESE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 278047--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.03 km | 35 ft | — | — | 2010-06-05 |
| 245638--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.17 km | 37 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2004-03-24 |
| 10813-R | Irrigation | 0.17 km | — | — | — | — |
| 15501-R | Irrigation | 0.17 km | 35 ft | — | — | 1955-02-01 |
| 245638- | Domestic, Stock | 0.18 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 6703-AD | Household use only | 0.21 km | — | — | — | — |
| 6890-R | Irrigation | 0.24 km | — | — | — | — |
| 12601-R | Irrigation | 0.24 km | — | — | — | — |
| 13304-R | Domestic, Irrigation | 0.24 km | — | — | — | — |
| 15591-R | Irrigation | 0.24 km | 22 ft | — | — | 1950-05-01 |
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.