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Well permit 51653-
Well permit · receipt 9021576 · 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: 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 | 240.0 ft |
| Driller | LEATHERMAN, JAMES E |
| Permit issued | 1972-02-24 |
| Well completed | 1972-10-24 |
| First beneficial use | 1972-10-24 |
| Well plugged | 2002-05-22 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.40358, -104.64551 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T7.0 S R65.0 W S34NENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51653--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.0 km | 371 ft | — | 11.0 gpm | 2002-05-20 |
| 3680551 | Household use only | 0.08 km | — | — | — | — |
| 89145- | Domestic, Stock | 0.18 km | 408 ft | — | 13.0 gpm | 1977-08-01 |
| 73568--A | Domestic | 0.21 km | 545 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1993-11-16 |
| 93437-VE | Domestic | 0.21 km | — | — | — | — |
| 73568- | Domestic | 0.21 km | — | — | — | 1974-03-15 |
| 34782- | Domestic | 0.22 km | 200 ft | — | — | 1968-08-30 |
| 83932- | Domestic | 0.23 km | 364 ft | — | — | 1977-04-14 |
| 50649- | Domestic | 0.24 km | 200 ft | — | — | 1972-03-23 |
| 133595- | Domestic | 0.27 km | 400 ft | — | — | 1984-04-17 |
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.