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Well permit 26170-
Well permit · receipt 9091872 · 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 | 6735.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1965-01-05 |
| First beneficial use | 1965-01-05 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.07082, -104.02513 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R59.0 W S5SESE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14280- | Stock | 1.27 km | 1,414 ft | — | — | 1963-11-11 |
| 193024- | Domestic | 1.6 km | 30 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | — |
| 25890-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 1.61 km | — | — | — | — |
| 5377-F | Irrigation | 1.61 km | 24 ft | — | — | 1964-04-15 |
| 193026--A | Stock | 1.63 km | 29 ft | — | 13.0 gpm | — |
| 95372-VE | Irrigation, Stock | 1.64 km | — | — | — | — |
| 193026- | Stock | 1.64 km | 24 ft | — | — | — |
| 4441-R | Irrigation | 1.65 km | — | — | — | — |
| 36224-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 1.7 km | — | — | — | — |
| 5980-F | Irrigation | 1.81 km | 32 ft | — | — | 1964-08-08 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 1991-06-13. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.