Hydrohistorian
Well permit 46972-
Well permit · receipt 9091998 · 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
| Status | Well Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Well plugged | 2006-06-10 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.02748, -103.65819 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T23.0 S R56.0 W S22SESE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46972--A | Domestic | 0.25 km | 38 ft | — | 14.0 gpm | 2008-05-12 |
| 256626- | Domestic | 0.29 km | — | — | — | — |
| 90446--A | Domestic | 0.33 km | 39 ft | — | — | 1977-01-12 |
| 90446- | Domestic | 0.33 km | 39 ft | — | — | 1977-06-15 |
| 262258- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.34 km | 40 ft | — | — | 2004-05-25 |
| 22344-F | Irrigation | 0.37 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1961-06-01 |
| 0007582 | Unknown | 0.4 km | — | — | — | — |
| 78932-F | Commercial | 0.62 km | 47 ft | — | 240.0 gpm | 1957-03-31 |
| 260-R | Irrigation | 0.65 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 9272-TH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.8 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.