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Well permit 26116-
Well permit · receipt 9091871 · 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 (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 | 32.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1966-01-05 |
| First beneficial use | 1966-01-05 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.12902, -104.01566 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T22.0 S R59.0 W S16SESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55926-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 251878- | Commercial | 0.16 km | 34 ft | — | — | 2004-11-29 |
| 148156- | Domestic | 0.18 km | — | — | — | — |
| 326794- | Domestic | 0.18 km | 32 ft | 1 ft | — | 2024-05-13 |
| 14-R-R | Irrigation | 0.21 km | — | — | — | — |
| 148157- | Domestic | 0.22 km | — | — | — | — |
| 59696-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.23 km | — | — | — | — |
| 262271- | Domestic | 0.24 km | 37 ft | — | — | — |
| 14-R | Irrigation | 0.4 km | 30 ft | — | — | 1936-10-22 |
| 15-R | Irrigation | 0.4 km | 30 ft | — | — | 1939-10-23 |
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.