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Well permit 211-RN

Well permit · receipt 9090904 · Division 2 · Water District 17 · Otero County

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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 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

StatusWell Constructed
CategoryGeneral Purpose
Total depth762.0 ft
Well completed1955-10-23

Location

Coordinates38.01639, -103.62154 (Spotted from quarters)
PLSSS PM, T23.0 S R56.0 W S25NESE

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 →

PermitUse DistanceDepthStatic levelYield Completed
457-AD Irrigation 0.0 km — — — —
15657-MH Monitoring/Sampling 0.29 km — — — —
6385-F Irrigation 0.32 km 36 ft — — 1964-11-12
6791-AD Domestic 0.41 km — — — —
91672- Domestic 0.41 km 550 ft — — 1978-03-04
0341008 Commercial 0.46 km — — — —
92254-VE Commercial 0.46 km — — — —
13518-F Commercial 0.49 km 730 ft — — 1968-12-31
6384-F Irrigation 0.55 km 36 ft — — 1964-11-11
198-R Irrigation 0.56 km 43 ft — — —

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.