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Well permit 17608-
Well permit · receipt 9016764 · Division 1 · Water District 8 · Douglas 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 Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Permit issued | 1963-10-02 |
| First beneficial use | 1963-09-30 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.43702, -104.87670 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T7.0 S R67.0 W S15SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17608--A | Domestic | 0.07 km | — | — | 13.0 gpm | — |
| 142542- | Domestic, Stock | 0.09 km | 660 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 1985-10-17 |
| 15051--A | Domestic | 0.11 km | 519 ft | — | 5.0 gpm | 1978-08-29 |
| 14645- | Domestic | 0.11 km | — | — | — | — |
| 15051- | Domestic | 0.11 km | 262 ft | 48 ft | — | 1963-05-02 |
| 96305--A | Domestic | 0.12 km | — | — | — | — |
| 221563- | Domestic | 0.12 km | 690 ft | — | 9.0 gpm | 1999-10-26 |
| 33020--A | Domestic | 0.15 km | — | — | — | — |
| 169184- | Household use only | 0.15 km | 720 ft | — | 8.0 gpm | 1994-01-03 |
| 12329--A | Domestic | 0.15 km | 285 ft | 230 ft | 5.0 gpm | 2022-10-06 |
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.