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Well permit 839-R
Well permit · receipt 9090968 · 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 Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 32.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1959-11-17 |
| First beneficial use | 1955-02-28 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.04068, -103.64676 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R56.0 W S14SESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 839-R-R | Irrigation | 0.01 km | 39 ft | — | 700.0 gpm | 2004-06-10 |
| 838-R | Irrigation | 0.22 km | 21 ft | — | — | — |
| 2416-F | Irrigation | 0.22 km | 35 ft | — | — | 1960-04-10 |
| 2450-F | Irrigation | 0.22 km | — | — | — | — |
| 1378-R | Irrigation | 0.24 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 13746-R | Irrigation | 0.24 km | — | — | — | — |
| 13747-R | Irrigation | 0.24 km | — | — | — | — |
| 13748-R | Irrigation | 0.24 km | — | — | — | — |
| 2416-F-R | Irrigation | 0.29 km | 36 ft | — | — | 2006-04-10 |
| 3749-F-R | Irrigation | 0.52 km | 41 ft | — | 900.0 gpm | 2004-04-30 |
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.