Hydrohistorian
Well permit 74321-
Well permit · receipt 9092035 · 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 | 420.0 ft |
| Driller | RAINS, W C |
| Permit issued | 1974-05-15 |
| Well completed | 1974-05-01 |
| First beneficial use | 1974-05-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.99221, -103.56621 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T24.0 S R55.0 W S4SENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32571-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.11 km | — | — | — | — |
| 4792-F | Commercial | 0.11 km | 26 ft | — | 125.0 gpm | 1963-08-09 |
| 13818-R | Irrigation | 0.34 km | — | — | — | — |
| 33084- | Domestic | 0.49 km | — | — | — | — |
| 24284- | Stock | 0.68 km | 140 ft | — | — | 1965-09-02 |
| 105418- | Stock | 0.69 km | — | — | — | — |
| 10118-R | Irrigation | 0.76 km | 44 ft | — | — | — |
| 45344-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.81 km | — | — | — | — |
| 12639-R | Irrigation | 0.81 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 15529-R | Irrigation | 0.81 km | 34 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.