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Well permit 53800-
Well permit · receipt 9030498 · Division 1 · Water District 80 · Jefferson 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 | 270.0 ft |
| Driller | VIRGINIA DRILLING CO. INC. (SHUCK, OTIS C) |
| Permit issued | 1972-03-23 |
| Well completed | 1974-05-03 |
| First beneficial use | 1974-05-14 |
| Well plugged | 2007-05-10 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.51718, -105.35757 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T6.0 S R71.0 W S20SENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53800--A | Household use only | 0.0 km | 500 ft | — | 7.8 gpm | 2007-04-20 |
| 73443- | Household use only | 0.05 km | 520 ft | — | 5.0 gpm | 1983-01-25 |
| 166357- | Household use only | 0.06 km | 602 ft | — | — | 1993-09-21 |
| 163137- | Household use only | 0.11 km | 605 ft | — | 0.8 gpm | 1992-05-21 |
| 178488- | Household use only | 0.11 km | — | — | — | — |
| 59347- | Domestic | 0.11 km | 505 ft | — | — | 1973-08-30 |
| 171030- | Household use only | 0.12 km | 420 ft | — | 2.0 gpm | 1993-07-27 |
| 199418- | Household use only | 0.13 km | 405 ft | — | 5.0 gpm | 1996-11-29 |
| 111435- | Household use only | 0.15 km | — | — | — | — |
| 119414- | Household use only | 0.15 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.