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Well permit 72248-
Well permit · receipt 9019022 · 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, Stock (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 | 165.0 ft |
| Driller | WHEELER, EUGENE |
| Permit issued | 1973-11-01 |
| Well completed | 1974-04-24 |
| First beneficial use | 1974-04-24 |
| Permit expires | 1975-11-01 |
| Well plugged | 2002-04-26 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.28490, -104.77038 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T9.0 S R66.0 W S10SWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72248--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.01 km | 323 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2002-04-03 |
| 28652-F | Other | 0.09 km | — | — | — | — |
| 28649-F | Other | 0.1 km | — | — | — | — |
| 28646-F | Municipal | 0.11 km | — | — | — | — |
| 187265- | Domestic, Stock | 0.53 km | 407 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1996-02-14 |
| 83739--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.66 km | 107 ft | — | 8.0 gpm | 1976-06-28 |
| 83739- | Domestic, Stock | 0.66 km | — | — | — | — |
| 266613- | Domestic | 0.67 km | 318 ft | — | 13.5 gpm | 2006-03-08 |
| 182470- | Domestic, Stock | 0.7 km | 320 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1995-02-20 |
| 83739--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.74 km | 280 ft | 125 ft | 15.0 gpm | 2023-07-28 |
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.