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Well permit 53975-
Well permit · receipt 9048989 · Division 1 · Water District 1 · Morgan 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: 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 Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 176.0 ft |
| Driller | CANFIELD DRILLING COMPANY (HENNESS JR., D ROBERT) |
| Permit issued | 1972-03-24 |
| Well completed | 1972-04-23 |
| First beneficial use | 1972-05-22 |
Location
| Coordinates | 40.26118, -103.96172 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T3.0 N R59.0 W S2NWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14983-F | Commercial | 0.56 km | 178 ft | — | — | 1970-05-21 |
| 594-R | Irrigation | 0.62 km | 205 ft | — | — | — |
| 9071-F | Irrigation | 0.69 km | 206 ft | — | — | 1965-06-14 |
| 194-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 1.11 km | 180 ft | — | — | — |
| 3816-F | Irrigation | 1.12 km | 240 ft | — | — | 1962-11-14 |
| 267045--A | Domestic | 1.16 km | 223 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2005-12-28 |
| 267045- | Domestic | 1.16 km | 220 ft | — | — | — |
| 79-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 1.17 km | 178 ft | — | — | — |
| 593-R-R | Irrigation | 1.19 km | 220 ft | 82 ft | 1500.0 gpm | 2022-07-25 |
| 306488- | Monitoring/Sampling | 1.2 km | 43 ft | 13 ft | — | 2017-06-22 |
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.