Hydrohistorian
Well permit 51488-
Well permit · receipt 9018299 · 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, Stock (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 | 62.0 ft |
| Driller | HIER DRILLING CO INC (HIER, BRUCE A.) |
| Permit issued | 1972-02-22 |
| Well completed | 1972-05-02 |
| First beneficial use | 1972-05-02 |
| Well plugged | 2003-01-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.26474, -104.71447 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T9.0 S R65.0 W S18NESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 245613- | Domestic | 0.01 km | — | — | — | — |
| 51488--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.07 km | 42 ft | — | 14.0 gpm | 2003-01-20 |
| 33054- | Domestic | 0.39 km | 95 ft | — | — | 1968-03-27 |
| 164632- | Domestic, Stock | 0.47 km | 235 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1993-06-28 |
| 177127- | Domestic, Stock | 0.48 km | 260 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1994-04-16 |
| 0402574 | Domestic, Stock | 0.53 km | — | — | — | — |
| 45985-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.65 km | — | — | — | — |
| 324394- | Domestic, Stock | 0.95 km | 280 ft | 120 ft | 15.0 gpm | 2022-07-25 |
| 302556- | Domestic, Stock | 0.97 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0365350 | Domestic, Stock | 1.05 km | — | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2011-12-15. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.