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Well permit 79878-
Well permit · receipt 9092049 · 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: 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 | 30.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1975-10-01 |
| First beneficial use | 1975-10-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.08571, -103.77972 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T22.0 S R57.0 W S34SWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15319-R | Irrigation | 0.19 km | 28 ft | 18 ft | — | 1952-12-31 |
| 2019- | Domestic | 0.2 km | 15 ft | — | — | 1958-09-28 |
| 305657- | Household use only | 0.38 km | — | — | — | — |
| 6188-F | Irrigation | 0.42 km | 57 ft | — | — | 1964-10-07 |
| 6162-F | Irrigation | 0.43 km | 60 ft | — | — | 1964-06-02 |
| 98419-VE | Irrigation | 0.47 km | — | — | — | — |
| 6162-F-R | Irrigation | 0.47 km | 62 ft | — | 977.0 gpm | 1998-10-15 |
| 6162-F-R | Irrigation | 0.47 km | — | — | — | — |
| 10293-R | Irrigation | 0.6 km | 30 ft | — | — | 1952-09-01 |
| 0007612 | Unknown | 0.62 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.