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Well permit 16455-F

Well permit · receipt 9016723 · Division 1 · Water District 8 · Douglas 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 Abandoned
CategoryGeneral Purpose
Total depth515.0 ft
Well completed1972-10-16
First beneficial use1972-10-16
Well plugged1978-12-14

Location

Coordinates39.39137, -104.75351 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSS PM, T7.0 S R66.0 W S35SWSW

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
16455-F-R Commercial 0.03 km 468 ft 1978-12-16
145738- Household use only 0.08 km 440 ft 15.0 gpm 1986-11-10
283269- Commercial 0.08 km 10.0 gpm
77599- Domestic 0.08 km 440 ft 1974-12-05
42467--A Domestic 0.1 km 504 ft 10.0 gpm 2012-06-19
293062- Commercial 0.1 km 2012-06-19
20749--A Domestic 0.12 km 480 ft 14.0 gpm 1981-01-08
91163-VE Commercial 0.15 km
159867- Commercial 0.15 km
162435- Commercial 0.15 km 460 ft 12.0 gpm 1991-05-28

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.