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Well permit 14280-
Well permit · receipt 9091581 · 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: Stock (category Residential).
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 Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 1414.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1963-11-11 |
| First beneficial use | 1963-11-11 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.07449, -104.03884 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R59.0 W S5NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26170- | Stock | 1.27 km | 6,735 ft | — | — | 1965-01-05 |
| 297973- | Domestic, Stock | 1.91 km | 1,360 ft | — | — | 2015-09-14 |
| 5980-F | Irrigation | 2.06 km | 32 ft | — | — | 1964-08-08 |
| 20370-F | Municipal | 2.44 km | — | — | — | — |
| 22393-F | Municipal | 2.76 km | 1,200 ft | — | 1.5 gpm | 1974-12-10 |
| 36224-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 2.89 km | — | — | — | — |
| 1463-R-R | Irrigation | 2.95 km | 33 ft | — | 840.0 gpm | 2010-06-04 |
| 251695- | Domestic, Stock | 2.98 km | — | — | — | — |
| 76451- | Stock | 3.08 km | — | — | — | — |
| 22397-F | Stock | 3.14 km | 8 ft | — | — | 1972-06-05 |
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.