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Well permit 688-R
Well permit · receipt 9090950 · 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: Irrigation (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 | 32.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1934-07-01 |
| First beneficial use | 1934-07-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.98235, -103.69243 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T24.0 S R56.0 W S4SWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 688-R-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 32 ft | — | 400.0 gpm | 1970-04-01 |
| 1707-R | Irrigation | 0.6 km | 42 ft | — | — | — |
| 40980-F | Commercial, Irrigation | 0.67 km | — | — | — | — |
| 232792- | Domestic, Stock | 0.67 km | — | — | — | — |
| 87105-F | Irrigation | 0.68 km | — | — | — | — |
| 229133- | Domestic, Stock | 0.69 km | — | — | — | — |
| 232793- | Domestic, Stock | 0.69 km | — | — | — | — |
| 229134- | Domestic, Stock | 0.76 km | — | — | — | — |
| 228735- | Domestic | 0.81 km | 50 ft | — | — | — |
| 228735--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.81 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.