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Well permit 16640-
Well permit · receipt 9021015 · 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: 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 |
| Total depth | 175.0 ft |
| Driller | THOMPSON, OLIN J |
| Permit issued | 1963-07-26 |
| Well completed | 1963-08-13 |
| First beneficial use | 1963-08-13 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.30404, -104.15792 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T8.0 S R60.0 W S31SWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0368055 | Domestic | 0.69 km | — | — | — | — |
| 282323- | Domestic, Stock | 0.7 km | 50 ft | — | — | 2010-02-01 |
| 24943- | Domestic | 0.72 km | 1,047 ft | — | — | 1965-08-13 |
| 242311- | Domestic | 0.84 km | — | — | — | — |
| 36952- | Stock | 1.11 km | — | — | — | 1969-03-15 |
| 282311- | Domestic, Stock | 1.14 km | 790 ft | — | 11.0 gpm | 2011-06-28 |
| 3652671A | Commercial, Domestic | 1.17 km | — | — | — | — |
| 3652671B | Commercial, Domestic | 1.17 km | — | — | — | — |
| 2582-BD | Commercial, Domestic | 1.17 km | — | — | — | — |
| 302168- | Domestic, Stock | 1.86 km | 420 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 2016-08-10 |
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.