Hydrohistorian
Well permit 649-RN
Well permit · receipt 9090947 · Division 2 · Water District 17 · Otero 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 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
| Status | Well Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 575.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1955-11-10 |
| First beneficial use | 1955-11-10 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.96961, -103.58080 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T24.0 S R55.0 W S9SWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 341918- | Household use only | 0.05 km | 705 ft | 235 ft | — | 2026-05-01 |
| 341581- | Household use only | 0.21 km | 720 ft | 240 ft | — | 2026-03-25 |
| 142283- | Domestic | 0.23 km | 560 ft | — | — | 1986-03-05 |
| 94117- | Domestic, Stock | 0.29 km | — | — | — | — |
| 46534- | Domestic | 0.3 km | 638 ft | — | — | 1971-07-14 |
| 212005- | Domestic | 0.44 km | 580 ft | — | — | 1998-05-19 |
| 216745- | Domestic, Stock | 0.46 km | 570 ft | — | — | — |
| 155532- | Domestic, Stock | 0.54 km | 555 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 1989-06-15 |
| 159477- | Domestic, Stock | 0.54 km | 555 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1989-06-15 |
| 33046-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.58 km | 580 ft | — | — | 1998-05-19 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 1991-09-17. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.