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Well permit 72373-
Well permit · receipt 9089436 · Division 2 · Water District 67 · Las Animas 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, 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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 140.0 ft |
| Driller | LEATHERMAN, JAMES E |
| Permit issued | 1973-11-08 |
| Well completed | 1973-12-05 |
| First beneficial use | 1973-12-05 |
| Well plugged | 2019-05-26 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.58453, -103.32620 (GPS) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T28.0 S R53.0 W S26NENW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72373--A | Stock | 0.02 km | 300 ft | 75 ft | — | 2019-05-22 |
| 291539- | Domestic, Stock | 1.15 km | — | — | — | — |
| 298961- | Stock | 1.33 km | — | — | — | — |
| 286128- | Stock | 1.57 km | — | — | — | — |
| 292786- | Stock | 1.6 km | — | — | — | — |
| 313354- | Stock | 1.63 km | 100 ft | 42 ft | — | 2019-06-03 |
| 242635--A | Domestic, Stock | 1.7 km | — | — | — | — |
| 242635--A | Domestic, Stock | 1.83 km | 100 ft | — | — | 2012-07-31 |
| 242635--A | Domestic, Stock | 1.84 km | — | — | — | — |
| 242635--A | Domestic, Stock | 1.84 km | 400 ft | — | — | 2019-05-15 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2019-07-12. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.