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Well permit 16638-
Well permit · receipt 9021013 · 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 Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Driller | THOMPSON, OLIN J |
| Permit issued | 1963-07-26 |
| Well completed | 1963-07-31 |
| First beneficial use | 1963-07-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.30419, -104.18119 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T8.0 S R61.0 W S35SESE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16638--A | Stock | 0.19 km | — | — | — | — |
| 75990-F | Stock | 0.19 km | 655 ft | — | 11.0 gpm | 2011-12-15 |
| 33126-M | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.94 km | 840 ft | — | — | 1988-10-26 |
| 78136-F | Irrigation, Stock | 1.05 km | — | — | 18.0 gpm | 1990-05-31 |
| 32514-F | Irrigation | 1.07 km | — | — | 129.0 gpm | 1990-05-31 |
| 282311- | Domestic, Stock | 1.08 km | 790 ft | — | 11.0 gpm | 2011-06-28 |
| 33127-M | Monitoring/Sampling | 1.15 km | 800 ft | — | — | 1988-11-05 |
| 3652671A | Commercial, Domestic | 1.17 km | — | — | — | — |
| 3652671B | Commercial, Domestic | 1.17 km | — | — | — | — |
| 2582-BD | Commercial, Domestic | 1.17 km | — | — | — | — |
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.