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Well permit 29968-
Well permit · receipt 9091903 · 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 |
| First beneficial use | 1967-03-27 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.96966, -103.56709 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T24.0 S R55.0 W S9SESE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29195- | Domestic | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 103491- | Domestic, Stock | 0.3 km | 310 ft | — | — | — |
| 20239- | Domestic, Stock | 0.4 km | 490 ft | — | — | 1964-07-02 |
| 20692- | Domestic, Stock | 0.4 km | 496 ft | — | — | 1964-07-31 |
| 4684- | Domestic | 0.41 km | 555 ft | — | — | 1959-10-17 |
| 24270-F | Domestic, Municipal | 0.49 km | 555 ft | — | — | 1959-10-17 |
| 204967- | Domestic | 0.53 km | — | — | — | — |
| 97267-VE | Domestic | 0.55 km | 585 ft | — | — | 1997-05-27 |
| 204967--A | Domestic | 0.55 km | 585 ft | — | — | 1997-05-27 |
| 30712-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.57 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.