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Well permit 4945-
Well permit · receipt 9020760 · Division 1 · Water District 1 · Elbert 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 Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 153.0 ft |
| Driller | TOWNLEY DRILLING (TOWNLEY, WILLIAM B) |
| Permit issued | 1959-12-07 |
| Well completed | 1959-11-07 |
| First beneficial use | 1959-11-07 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.47200, -104.58203 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T7.0 S R64.0 W S5SENW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 327707- | Domestic, Stock | 0.18 km | — | — | — | — |
| 339250- | Domestic | 0.18 km | — | — | — | — |
| 91136-VE | Irrigation | 0.21 km | — | — | — | — |
| 76201- | Domestic, Stock | 0.29 km | 250 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1974-10-31 |
| 327706- | Domestic, Stock | 0.31 km | — | — | — | — |
| 4944--A | Domestic | 0.32 km | 181 ft | — | 14.0 gpm | 2001-02-05 |
| 19955-R-R | Irrigation | 0.33 km | 58 ft | — | 850.0 gpm | 1991-05-23 |
| 19955-R | Irrigation | 0.35 km | 55 ft | — | — | — |
| 339318- | Domestic, Stock | 0.38 km | — | — | — | — |
| 4944- | Domestic | 0.4 km | 97 ft | — | — | 1959-11-11 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2016-08-01. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.