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Well permit 53875-
Well permit · receipt 9082875 · Division 2 · Water District 10 · 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: 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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 140.0 ft |
| Driller | M & B DRILLING CO. (MATEYKA, JOHN E.) |
| Permit issued | 1972-03-23 |
| Well completed | 1972-08-15 |
| First beneficial use | 1973-03-01 |
| Well plugged | 1999-03-26 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.07690, -104.49024 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T11.0 S R63.0 W S19NESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53875--A | Domestic | 0.22 km | 400 ft | — | 6.0 gpm | 1999-03-26 |
| 0453922 | Domestic | 0.28 km | — | — | — | — |
| 225553- | Domestic, Stock | 0.32 km | 437 ft | — | 7.1 gpm | 2000-07-28 |
| 102956- | Domestic | 0.36 km | — | — | — | 1979-05-21 |
| 188418- | Domestic | 0.41 km | 276 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 1996-03-29 |
| 269313- | Domestic, Stock | 0.41 km | 834 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 2006-09-18 |
| 95958- | Domestic | 0.44 km | 260 ft | — | 11.0 gpm | 1978-03-06 |
| 137729- | Domestic | 0.47 km | 250 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1984-12-17 |
| 180817- | Domestic | 0.49 km | 600 ft | — | 5.0 gpm | 1996-08-16 |
| 313774- | Domestic | 0.49 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.