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Well permit 16729-
Well permit · receipt 9068260 · Division 1 · Water District 65 · Yuma 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 | 41.0 ft |
| Driller | WRAPE & PAYNE (WRAPE, ) |
| Permit issued | 1963-08-02 |
| Well completed | 1963-07-29 |
| First beneficial use | 1963-07-29 |
| Permit expires | 1965-08-02 |
| Well plugged | 1993-06-08 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.75730, -102.46117 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T3.0 S R45.0 W S31NWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 117977- | Domestic | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 16729--A | Domestic | 0.12 km | 60 ft | — | 25.0 gpm | 1993-05-19 |
| 16729--A | Domestic | 0.17 km | 60 ft | 14 ft | 30.0 gpm | 2019-09-18 |
| 334100- | Domestic, Stock | 0.2 km | 60 ft | 14 ft | 30.0 gpm | 2019-09-18 |
| 334100--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.2 km | 53 ft | 13 ft | 45.0 gpm | 2025-12-16 |
| 314908- | Domestic, Stock | 0.26 km | — | — | — | — |
| 50444-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.77 km | 38 ft | — | — | 2012-02-17 |
| 290490- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.77 km | 29 ft | — | — | 2012-02-17 |
| 20376-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.85 km | — | — | — | — |
| 50447-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.85 km | 30 ft | — | — | 2012-02-17 |
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.