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Well permit 65878-
Well permit · receipt 9018773 · 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 Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 340.0 ft |
| Driller | ORMSBEE DEVELOPMENT CO. (ORMSBEE, PAT) |
| Permit issued | 1972-10-25 |
| Well completed | 1973-08-13 |
| First beneficial use | 1973-08-13 |
| Permit expires | 1974-10-25 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.47423, -104.70477 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T7.0 S R65.0 W S6SWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31958- | Domestic | 0.23 km | 405 ft | 225 ft | — | 1967-08-31 |
| 129711- | Domestic | 0.29 km | 395 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1983-08-10 |
| 151126- | Domestic | 0.53 km | 747 ft | — | 9.0 gpm | 1988-06-07 |
| 38666- | Domestic, Stock | 0.54 km | 269 ft | — | — | 1969-07-23 |
| 138149- | Domestic | 0.57 km | 380 ft | — | 13.0 gpm | 1985-03-14 |
| 78893- | Domestic | 0.57 km | 395 ft | — | — | 1977-04-27 |
| 3692315 | Domestic | 0.58 km | — | — | — | — |
| 55387- | Domestic, Stock | 0.61 km | — | — | — | 1972-11-10 |
| 38843- | Domestic | 0.62 km | 288 ft | — | — | 1969-07-30 |
| 45279- | Domestic | 0.62 km | 250 ft | — | — | 1971-04-10 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2015-10-06. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.