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Well permit 502-RN

Well permit · receipt 9090931 · 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

CategoryGeneral Purpose

Location

Coordinates38.13262, -104.02955 (Spotted from quarters)
PLSSS PM, T22.0 S R59.0 W S17NWSE

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
11623-R Irrigation 0.0 km 30 ft 1975-05-14
11756-R Domestic, Irrigation 0.0 km
11757-R Irrigation 0.0 km
291499- Domestic 0.06 km 30 ft
64566-MH Monitoring/Sampling 0.28 km
172-WCB Colorado Water Conservation Board 0.28 km 28 ft
175-WCB Colorado Water Conservation Board 0.28 km
176-WCB Colorado Water Conservation Board 0.28 km 26 ft
187-WCB Colorado Water Conservation Board 0.28 km 24 ft
15656-MH Monitoring/Sampling 0.29 km

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.