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Well permit 551-
Well permit · receipt 9073477 · Division 2 · Water District 17 · Bent 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 Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 181.0 ft |
| Driller | HARRY D. FOLGER & SON (FOLGER, HARRY D) |
| Well completed | 1957-12-02 |
| First beneficial use | 1957-12-02 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.05374, -103.25947 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R52.0 W S17NWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-WCB | Irrigation | 0.4 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1955-05-11 |
| 35758-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.57 km | 350 ft | — | — | 1999-03-17 |
| 6880-F | Irrigation | 0.57 km | 36 ft | 9 ft | — | 1965-03-26 |
| 44-WCB | Municipal | 0.57 km | 42 ft | — | — | — |
| 209438- | Stock | 0.64 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 277468- | Domestic | 0.65 km | — | — | — | 1985-07-08 |
| 140197- | Stock | 0.65 km | 50 ft | — | — | 1985-07-20 |
| 216598- | Domestic, Stock | 0.68 km | 350 ft | — | — | — |
| 216598--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.68 km | 350 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1999-03-17 |
| 217324- | Domestic, Stock | 0.68 km | 35 ft | — | — | — |
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.