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Well permit 7238-R
Well permit · receipt 9091304 · 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 |
| Well plugged | 2004-03-08 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.02709, -103.61709 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R55.0 W S19SWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7237-R | Domestic, Irrigation | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 7239-R | Domestic, Irrigation | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 7237-R-R | Irrigation | 0.19 km | — | — | — | — |
| 7237-R-R | Irrigation | 0.2 km | 35 ft | — | 262.0 gpm | 2004-05-10 |
| 7238-R-R | Irrigation | 0.22 km | 35 ft | — | 160.0 gpm | 2003-11-11 |
| 7239-R-R | Irrigation | 0.23 km | 31 ft | — | 119.0 gpm | 1999-07-25 |
| 6492-AD | Irrigation | 0.36 km | — | — | — | — |
| 5895-R | Industrial | 0.39 km | — | — | — | — |
| 5896-R | Industrial | 0.39 km | — | — | — | — |
| 5897-R | Industrial | 0.39 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.