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Well permit 55998-
Well permit · receipt 9021644 · 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 (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 | 193.0 ft |
| Driller | HIER DRILLING CO INC (HIER, BRUCE A.) |
| Permit issued | 1972-04-06 |
| Well completed | 1972-04-10 |
| First beneficial use | 1972-04-15 |
| Well plugged | 2017-08-11 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.19799, -104.56640 (GPS) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T10.0 S R64.0 W S9SWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 306218- | Domestic | 0.02 km | — | — | — | — |
| 55998--A | Domestic | 0.03 km | 200 ft | 45 ft | 14.0 gpm | 2017-07-24 |
| 307034- | Domestic | 0.2 km | 295 ft | 50 ft | 15.0 gpm | 2017-12-12 |
| 265806- | Stock | 0.27 km | 34 ft | — | — | 1954-08-06 |
| 153523- | Domestic, Stock | 0.34 km | — | — | — | — |
| 157680- | Domestic, Stock | 0.34 km | 310 ft | — | 14.0 gpm | 1991-07-31 |
| 219659- | Domestic | 0.41 km | 180 ft | — | 11.0 gpm | 1999-09-19 |
| 92742- | Domestic, Stock | 0.44 km | 204 ft | — | — | 1978-03-08 |
| 203663- | Domestic | 0.48 km | 314 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 1997-07-09 |
| 145608- | Domestic | 0.52 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.