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Well permit 8459-R
Well permit · receipt 9091326 · 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 | 52.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1957-01-29 |
| First beneficial use | 1957-01-29 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.10339, -103.98850 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T22.0 S R59.0 W S27NESE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8459-R-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 53 ft | — | — | 1975-04-10 |
| 8457-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 52 ft | — | — | 1954-01-22 |
| 8458-R | Irrigation | 0.13 km | 52 ft | — | — | 1957-01-24 |
| 95853- | Domestic, Stock | 0.15 km | — | — | — | 1957-12-17 |
| 8459-R-R | Irrigation | 0.15 km | — | — | — | 1975-04-10 |
| 8456-R | Irrigation | 0.22 km | 49 ft | — | — | 1953-08-14 |
| 1367-R | Irrigation | 0.4 km | 49 ft | — | — | — |
| 190069- | Domestic, Stock | 0.5 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 190069--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.5 km | — | — | — | — |
| 95312- | Domestic, Stock | 0.54 km | 50 ft | — | — | — |
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.