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Well permit 53778-
Well permit · receipt 9018416 · 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 |
| Total depth | 125.0 ft |
| Driller | ATLAS DRILLING COMPANY (JENNINGS, DONALD) |
| Permit issued | 1972-03-22 |
| Well completed | 1972-06-02 |
| First beneficial use | 1972-06-02 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.51944, -104.90555 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T6.0 S R67.0 W S20NENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53778--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.01 km | 283 ft | — | 13.0 gpm | 1981-06-11 |
| 53780--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.09 km | 322 ft | — | 10.8 gpm | 1981-09-29 |
| 53780- | Domestic | 0.09 km | 152 ft | — | 9.0 gpm | 1972-05-15 |
| 53779--A | Domestic | 0.11 km | 400 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1995-06-19 |
| 60971- | Domestic | 0.12 km | — | — | — | — |
| 60972- | Domestic | 0.12 km | — | — | — | — |
| 60970- | Domestic | 0.12 km | 85 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | — |
| 88044-F | Domestic | 0.14 km | 450 ft | 260 ft | 13.0 gpm | 2023-08-03 |
| 106747- | Domestic, Stock | 0.17 km | 330 ft | — | — | 1982-05-26 |
| 231048- | Domestic | 0.19 km | — | — | — | — |
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.