Hydrohistorian
Well permit 79884-
Well permit · receipt 9083906 · 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: 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 Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Permit issued | 1975-07-14 |
| First beneficial use | 1920-02-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.73766, -104.18208 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T15.0 S R61.0 W S24NWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79884--A | Domestic | 0.02 km | 350 ft | — | — | 1975-06-15 |
| 98243-VE | Domestic | 0.1 km | 590 ft | — | — | 1998-06-23 |
| 79884--A | Domestic | 0.1 km | — | — | — | — |
| 98043-VE | Commercial | 0.12 km | — | — | — | — |
| 207963- | Commercial | 0.12 km | 557 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1998-02-09 |
| 209934- | Commercial | 0.12 km | 557 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1998-02-09 |
| 161350- | Domestic | 0.2 km | 540 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1991-10-14 |
| 333759- | Domestic | 0.29 km | 620 ft | 400 ft | 10.0 gpm | 2024-10-02 |
| 178119- | Domestic | 0.32 km | 580 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1994-07-07 |
| 205265- | Domestic | 0.38 km | 600 ft | — | 9.0 gpm | 1997-10-18 |
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.