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Well permit 70796-
Well permit · receipt 9018976 · 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 - Replacement Permit Issued |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Driller | ORMSBEE DEVELOPMENT CO. (ORMSBEE, PAT) |
| Permit issued | 1973-08-22 |
| Well completed | 1973-08-23 |
| First beneficial use | 1973-08-23 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.17014, -104.70769 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T10.0 S R65.0 W S19NWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70796--A | Domestic | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 196420- | Domestic, Stock | 0.42 km | 687 ft | — | 10.5 gpm | 1997-09-11 |
| 314871- | Domestic, Stock | 0.44 km | 695 ft | 270 ft | 3.0 gpm | 2021-01-06 |
| 317730- | Domestic | 0.54 km | — | — | — | — |
| 27882--A | Domestic, Other, Stock | 0.61 km | — | — | — | — |
| 27882- | Domestic | 0.62 km | 125 ft | — | — | 1966-07-05 |
| 47213- | Stock | 0.7 km | 50 ft | — | — | 1948-08-02 |
| 248777- | Domestic | 0.81 km | 402 ft | — | 12.5 gpm | 2004-09-09 |
| 47212- | Domestic, Stock | 0.81 km | 130 ft | — | — | 1950-04-10 |
| 203959- | Domestic | 0.84 km | 200 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1997-08-07 |
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.