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Well permit 20978-
Well permit · receipt 9016948 · 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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 416.0 ft |
| Driller | HIER DRILLING CO INC (HIER, BRUCE A.) |
| Permit issued | 1964-07-30 |
| Well completed | 1964-07-31 |
| Well plugged | 1996-04-10 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.44567, -104.86620 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T7.0 S R67.0 W S14SWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96099-VE | Domestic | 0.0 km | 705 ft | — | — | 1996-04-05 |
| 20978--A | Domestic | 0.0 km | 760 ft | — | 7.0 gpm | 1996-04-05 |
| 195428- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 705 ft | — | — | 1996-04-05 |
| 10049740 | Domestic | 0.07 km | — | — | — | — |
| 90593- | Domestic | 0.08 km | 404 ft | — | — | 1977-07-20 |
| 150417- | Household use only | 0.12 km | 800 ft | — | 9.0 gpm | 1995-01-03 |
| 171708- | Household use only | 0.13 km | 845 ft | — | 8.0 gpm | 1993-10-05 |
| 335548- | Domestic | 0.13 km | 1,180 ft | 800 ft | 10.0 gpm | 2025-04-17 |
| 50939--A | Domestic | 0.18 km | 270 ft | — | — | — |
| 52454--A | Domestic | 0.18 km | 705 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 2000-02-22 |
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.