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Well permit 279-RN
Well permit · receipt 9078264 · Division 2 · Water District 17 · El Paso 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: Stock (category General Purpose).
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 | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 90.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1960-04-25 |
| First beneficial use | 1950-08-30 |
| Well plugged | 1978-12-10 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.01415, -104.22751 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T12.0 S R61.0 W S9SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 279-RN-A | Domestic, Stock | 0.09 km | 590 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1977-12-15 |
| 69975- | Domestic, Stock | 0.5 km | 553 ft | — | 9.0 gpm | 1973-08-02 |
| 286431- | Stock | 0.54 km | 120 ft | — | 1.5 gpm | 2011-09-20 |
| 140016--A | Stock | 0.58 km | 94 ft | — | 2.0 gpm | 1985-05-15 |
| 140016- | Stock | 0.58 km | 94 ft | — | — | 1910-12-21 |
| 256175- | Commercial | 0.86 km | — | — | — | — |
| 317500- | Domestic, Stock | 0.95 km | — | — | — | — |
| 35318- | Domestic | 0.99 km | — | — | 3.0 gpm | — |
| 188616- | Stock | 1.05 km | 180 ft | — | — | 1995-09-15 |
| 216644- | Domestic | 1.31 km | — | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2014-11-26. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.