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Well permit 85718-
Well permit · receipt 9092065 · 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 | 24.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1976-08-23 |
| First beneficial use | 1951-12-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.99526, -103.55780 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T24.0 S R55.0 W S3NENW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45344-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 12639-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 15529-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 34 ft | — | — | — |
| 295-RN | Domestic, Stock | 0.42 km | 42 ft | — | — | 1967-10-23 |
| 11948-R | Irrigation | 0.42 km | — | — | — | — |
| 142494- | Domestic, Stock | 0.44 km | — | — | — | — |
| 142494--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.44 km | 35 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1986-01-10 |
| 14386--R | Municipal | 0.58 km | — | — | — | — |
| 1284-R | Irrigation | 0.58 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 2603-F | Irrigation | 0.58 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1960-06-11 |
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.