Hydrohistorian
Well permit 46971-
Well permit · receipt 9091997 · 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 | 38.03836, -103.66268 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R56.0 W S22NWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0007585 | Unknown | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 46969- | Domestic, Stock | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 46970- | Domestic, Stock | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 46975- | Domestic | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 10525-F-R | Commercial | 0.84 km | — | — | — | — |
| 216395- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.84 km | 41 ft | — | — | 1999-04-10 |
| 0007581 | Unknown | 0.89 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0007584 | Unknown | 0.89 km | — | — | — | — |
| 244-WCB | Irrigation | 0.89 km | 35 ft | — | — | — |
| 0007586 | Unknown | 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.