Hydrohistorian
Well permit 31475-
Well permit · receipt 9091911 · 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 | 50.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1967-09-25 |
| First beneficial use | 1967-09-25 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.06782, -103.55325 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R55.0 W S10NWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20692-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.91 km | — | — | — | — |
| 24492- | Domestic | 0.91 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1965-07-06 |
| 171112- | Domestic, Stock | 1.06 km | 760 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1993-09-01 |
| 304875- | Domestic | 1.28 km | 28 ft | 18 ft | — | 2019-02-25 |
| 291348- | Domestic, Stock | 1.43 km | — | — | — | — |
| 84479- | Stock | 1.64 km | — | — | — | — |
| 24642- | Stock | 1.66 km | — | — | — | — |
| 219129- | Domestic, Fire | 1.84 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 219129--A | Domestic | 1.84 km | — | — | — | — |
| 209301- | Domestic | 1.89 km | 40 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.