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Well permit 46973-
Well permit · receipt 9091999 · 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 Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 29.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1922-07-31 |
| First beneficial use | 1922-07-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.09942, -103.83224 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T22.0 S R57.0 W S30SESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 185-WCB | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1956-06-18 |
| 19971-R | Irrigation | 0.26 km | 35 ft | — | — | — |
| 53428- | Stock | 0.32 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 15003- | Domestic | 0.39 km | 51 ft | — | — | — |
| 19968-R | Irrigation | 0.39 km | — | — | — | — |
| 19970-R | Irrigation | 0.39 km | 46 ft | — | — | 1952-03-15 |
| 50748-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.4 km | — | — | — | — |
| 53428--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.4 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1979-12-12 |
| 4439-R | Irrigation | 0.4 km | — | — | — | 1950-05-31 |
| 310450- | Domestic | 0.46 km | 43 ft | — | — | 1921-05-30 |
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.