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Well permit 85848-
Well permit · receipt 9087465 · Division 2 · Water District 16 · Huerfano 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 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 | 60.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1976-09-10 |
| First beneficial use | 1976-09-10 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.57702, -105.04366 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T28.0 S R68.0 W S31NENW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32784-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.36 km | 761 ft | — | — | 1998-03-24 |
| 18034- | Stock | 0.61 km | — | — | — | — |
| 95357- | Stock | 1.49 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 121988- | Domestic, Stock | 1.65 km | — | — | — | — |
| 60596- | Stock | 1.78 km | — | — | — | — |
| 18024- | Stock | 1.86 km | 57 ft | — | — | 1963-11-15 |
| 139746- | Stock | 2.0 km | 150 ft | — | — | 1986-04-25 |
| 18021- | Stock | 2.01 km | 50 ft | — | — | 1963-10-30 |
| 95355- | Stock | 2.01 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 86003- | Stock | 2.39 km | 50 ft | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2026-02-02. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.