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Well permit 16635-
Well permit · receipt 9021010 · Division 1 · Water District 1 · Elbert 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: 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 Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Driller | THOMPSON, OLIN J |
| Permit issued | 1963-07-26 |
| Well completed | 1963-08-06 |
| First beneficial use | 1963-08-06 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.34029, -104.14339 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T8.0 S R60.0 W S19SENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 279509- | Stock | 0.82 km | — | — | — | — |
| 4789- | Stock | 0.89 km | — | — | — | 1959-10-09 |
| 279510- | Stock | 0.91 km | — | — | — | — |
| 279508- | Stock | 0.96 km | — | — | — | — |
| 16634- | Stock | 1.84 km | — | — | — | 1963-08-01 |
| 247937--A | Stock | 1.93 km | 260 ft | — | 2.5 gpm | 2003-02-27 |
| 65952--A | Domestic | 1.93 km | 280 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2014-12-04 |
| 247937- | Stock | 1.94 km | 20 ft | — | — | — |
| 247937--A | Stock | 2.01 km | 360 ft | 136 ft | 5.0 gpm | 2018-06-14 |
| 16639- | Stock | 2.04 km | — | — | — | 1963-08-08 |
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.