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Well permit 756-R
Well permit · receipt 9090958 · 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: Municipal (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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 42.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1959-10-30 |
| First beneficial use | 1936-12-30 |
| Well plugged | 2002-05-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.13981, -104.02507 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T22.0 S R59.0 W S17NENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4005906-MH | Monitoring Hole (Notice of Intent) | 0.21 km | — | — | — | — |
| 55211-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.26 km | — | — | — | — |
| 756-R-R | Municipal | 0.27 km | 42 ft | — | 800.0 gpm | 2001-10-25 |
| 214485- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.31 km | — | — | — | — |
| 11-R | Irrigation | 0.4 km | 33 ft | — | — | 1915-01-01 |
| 12275-R | Irrigation | 0.41 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1955-08-01 |
| 16195-R-R | Irrigation | 0.47 km | 28 ft | 8 ft | 400.0 gpm | 2018-04-11 |
| 208598- | Domestic | 0.48 km | 25 ft | — | — | 1915-12-31 |
| 214487- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.57 km | — | — | — | — |
| 16195-R | Irrigation | 0.57 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.