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Well permit 423-RN

Well permit · receipt 9090922 · 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 depth710.0 ft
Well completed1972-10-22
First beneficial use1972-10-22

Location

Coordinates37.95837, -103.61755 (Spotted from quarters)
PLSSS PM, T24.0 S R55.0 W S18NWSW

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
95297- Domestic 0.29 km 22 ft — — 1978-03-10
95297--A Domestic 0.3 km 22 ft — — 1978-03-10
50752-MH Monitoring/Sampling 0.57 km — — — —
236940- Domestic, Stock 0.95 km — — — —
14271-F Municipal 1.03 km 713 ft — — 1969-09-10
5158-F Municipal 1.14 km 700 ft — — 1964-03-28
66322- Household use only 1.16 km 20 ft — — 1972-11-16
69008-F Commercial 1.22 km 700 ft — 90.0 gpm 1964-03-28
92735- Domestic, Stock 1.27 km 570 ft — — 1977-09-13
92735--A Domestic, Stock 1.29 km 570 ft — — 1977-09-13

Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2014-09-23. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.