Hydrohistorian
Well permit 46957-
Well permit · receipt 9091983 · 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, 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
| Category | Residential |
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Location
| Coordinates | 38.07866, -103.74999 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R57.0 W S2SENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11587- | Stock | 0.4 km | 31 ft | — | — | 1962-05-29 |
| 46959- | Domestic, Stock | 0.4 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0007601 | Unknown | 0.57 km | — | — | — | — |
| 12309-R | Irrigation | 0.57 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0007610 | Unknown | 0.63 km | — | — | — | — |
| 129-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.63 km | 43 ft | — | — | — |
| 132-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.63 km | 60 ft | — | — | — |
| 10213-R | Irrigation | 0.81 km | — | — | — | — |
| 12308-R | Irrigation | 0.9 km | 63 ft | — | — | 1955-06-15 |
| 46961- | Domestic, Stock | 0.9 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.