Hydrohistorian
Well permit 71489-
Well permit · receipt 9070248 · Division 1 · Water District 65 · Yuma 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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 195.0 ft |
| Driller | KLASSEN DRILLING (KLASSEN, PAUL C) |
| Permit issued | 1973-09-20 |
| Well completed | 1974-04-15 |
| First beneficial use | 1974-04-15 |
| Well plugged | 2022-01-07 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.65580, -102.76508 (GPS) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T4.0 S R48.0 W S32SESE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71489--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.0 km | 200 ft | 180 ft | 5.0 gpm | 2022-01-05 |
| 74655- | Domestic, Stock | 0.29 km | — | — | — | — |
| 654-AD | Irrigation | 0.62 km | — | — | — | — |
| 1750-AD | Irrigation | 0.62 km | — | — | — | — |
| 657-AD | Irrigation | 0.68 km | — | — | — | — |
| 1751-AD | Irrigation | 0.68 km | — | — | — | — |
| 343158- | Domestic, Stock | 0.73 km | 225 ft | 169 ft | 21.0 gpm | 2026-06-09 |
| 34622- | Stock | 1.0 km | 195 ft | — | — | 1968-07-18 |
| 79748- | Stock | 1.2 km | 175 ft | — | — | 1975-07-24 |
| 656-AD | Irrigation | 1.27 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.