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Well permit 71302-
Well permit · receipt 9018998 · Division 1 · Water District 8 · Douglas County
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 | 275.0 ft |
| Driller | JAMES DRILLING COMPANY (KEATON, MICHAEL K.) |
| Permit issued | 1973-09-17 |
| Well completed | 1973-10-09 |
| First beneficial use | 1974-01-18 |
| Permit expires | 1975-09-17 |
| Well plugged | 2008-10-16 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.45745, -104.93388 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T7.0 S R67.0 W S7SENW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 277345- | Household use only | 0.04 km | 810 ft | — | 8.5 gpm | 2008-11-10 |
| 3654046 | Commercial, Irrigation | 0.04 km | — | — | — | — |
| 77568-F | Commercial, Irrigation | 0.04 km | — | — | — | 2008-11-10 |
| 19791-S | Domestic, Stock | 0.33 km | 60 ft | — | — | — |
| 45278- | Domestic | 0.85 km | 363 ft | — | — | 1971-05-28 |
| 19772-S | Domestic, Stock | 0.94 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0222109A | Municipal | 1.19 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0222109C | Municipal | 1.19 km | — | — | — | — |
| 88033-F | Commercial, Industrial, Irrigation, Municipal, Other | 1.24 km | 607 ft | — | — | 2023-07-12 |
| 23167- | Domestic | 1.34 km | 202 ft | — | — | 1965-03-31 |
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.