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Well permit 48217-
Well permit · receipt 9074855 · Division 2 · Water District 11 · Chaffee 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: Commercial (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 Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 52.0 ft |
| Driller | TWIN LAKES DRILLING CO. (SCHAFFER, JAMES O) |
| Permit issued | 1971-08-17 |
| Well completed | 1971-08-25 |
| First beneficial use | 1971-08-24 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.81213, -106.10644 (GPS) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T14.0 S R78.0 W S22SWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29827-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.01 km | — | — | — | — |
| 41871-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.01 km | — | — | — | — |
| 41872-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.01 km | — | — | — | — |
| 41873-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.01 km | — | — | — | — |
| 42091-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.01 km | 64 ft | — | — | 2003-05-05 |
| 54837-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.01 km | 50 ft | — | — | 2016-01-20 |
| 54961-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.01 km | — | — | — | — |
| 55083-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.01 km | — | — | — | — |
| 55300-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.01 km | — | — | — | — |
| 48217--A | Commercial | 0.01 km | 120 ft | 51 ft | 15.0 gpm | 2024-05-07 |
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.