Hydrohistorian
Well permit 1920-R
Well permit · receipt 9091053 · 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, 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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| First beneficial use | 1924-12-31 |
| Well plugged | 2023-02-24 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.11890, -103.98463 (GPS) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T22.0 S R59.0 W S23NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 329132- | Domestic | 0.01 km | — | — | — | — |
| 1191-R | Irrigation | 0.31 km | 35 ft | — | — | — |
| 1755-R | Irrigation | 0.31 km | 39 ft | — | — | — |
| 1756-R | Irrigation | 0.31 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 1191-R-R | Irrigation | 0.42 km | — | — | — | — |
| 95156-VE | Irrigation | 0.42 km | — | — | — | — |
| 95184- | Domestic, Stock | 0.43 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 559-R | Irrigation | 0.51 km | 26 ft | — | — | — |
| 114514- | Household use only | 0.51 km | 32 ft | — | — | 1980-11-12 |
| 7284-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.