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Well permit 51486-
Well permit · receipt 9018298 · 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 | 350.0 ft |
| Driller | HIER DRILLING CO INC (HIER, BRUCE A.) |
| Permit issued | 1972-02-22 |
| Well completed | 1972-05-18 |
| First beneficial use | 1972-05-18 |
| Well plugged | 1981-09-17 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.44560, -104.87106 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T7.0 S R67.0 W S15SENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51486--A | Domestic | 0.0 km | 672 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 1981-08-03 |
| 195439- | Domestic | 0.08 km | 1,080 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 1997-10-23 |
| 10021--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.12 km | 698 ft | — | — | 1984-07-20 |
| 211593- | Domestic | 0.12 km | 1,060 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1998-11-23 |
| 10021- | Domestic | 0.12 km | — | — | — | — |
| 39770- | Domestic | 0.12 km | 340 ft | — | 12.5 gpm | 1969-11-18 |
| 116514- | Domestic, Stock | 0.15 km | 700 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1980-10-15 |
| 71534--A | Domestic | 0.15 km | 392 ft | 87 ft | 11.0 gpm | 1973-06-14 |
| 161415- | Household use only | 0.15 km | 667 ft | — | 8.0 gpm | 1992-02-20 |
| 106744- | Domestic | 0.17 km | 600 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 1980-07-23 |
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.