Hydrohistorian
Well permit 279572-
Well permit · receipt 3635929 · 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 Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 30.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 2008-12-29 |
| First beneficial use | 1938-12-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.05217, -103.72965 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R57.0 W S13NENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 279573- | Irrigation | 0.05 km | 28 ft | — | — | — |
| 112446- | Domestic | 0.13 km | 30 ft | — | — | 1934-07-07 |
| 324859- | Domestic | 0.19 km | 26 ft | — | — | 1936-04-15 |
| 6401-AD | Stock | 0.26 km | — | — | — | — |
| 285544- | Domestic, Stock | 0.32 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 0201101 | Domestic | 0.35 km | — | — | — | — |
| 22331- | Domestic | 0.35 km | 31 ft | — | — | 1964-12-08 |
| 22490- | Domestic | 0.35 km | 30 ft | — | — | 1964-12-22 |
| 23839- | Domestic | 0.35 km | 36 ft | — | — | 1965-05-22 |
| 585-R-R | Irrigation | 0.37 km | 32 ft | — | — | 1959-09-16 |
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.