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Well permit 59941-
Well permit · receipt 9018562 · 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 | 600.0 ft |
| Driller | LEATHERMAN, JAMES E |
| Permit issued | 1972-05-04 |
| Well completed | 1972-06-27 |
| First beneficial use | 1972-06-02 |
| Well plugged | 1988-11-10 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.34587, -104.81030 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T8.0 S R66.0 W S20NWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189842- | Domestic | 0.22 km | 858 ft | — | 7.0 gpm | 1996-01-19 |
| 101492- | Domestic, Stock | 0.23 km | 820 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 1978-12-27 |
| 122584- | Domestic | 0.24 km | — | — | — | — |
| 14390-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.26 km | — | — | — | 1988-08-29 |
| 152993- | Domestic | 0.26 km | 890 ft | — | 9.0 gpm | 1988-11-03 |
| 68015- | Domestic, Stock | 0.32 km | 740 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1973-10-01 |
| 305974- | Domestic | 0.36 km | 950 ft | 720 ft | 12.0 gpm | 2022-09-29 |
| 72708- | Domestic | 0.44 km | — | — | — | — |
| 39403- | Domestic | 0.44 km | 802 ft | — | — | 1969-09-22 |
| 274776- | Domestic, Stock | 0.44 km | 802 ft | 325 ft | 11.0 gpm | 1969-09-23 |
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.