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Well permit 86656-
Well permit · receipt 9092069 · 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 | 25.0 ft |
| First beneficial use | 1912-12-30 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.99503, -103.68597 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T24.0 S R56.0 W S4NENW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10069-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 41 ft | — | — | — |
| 86657- | Domestic, Stock | 0.0 km | 26 ft | — | — | — |
| 216-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.64 km | 41 ft | — | — | — |
| 5382- | Domestic | 0.8 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1960-04-08 |
| 10403-R | Irrigation | 0.81 km | — | — | — | — |
| UC11122 | Monitoring/Observation | 0.87 km | 55 ft | — | — | 2026-01-27 |
| 40980-F | Commercial, Irrigation | 0.88 km | — | — | — | — |
| 284374- | Irrigation, Stock | 1.03 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 279443- | Domestic, Stock | 1.2 km | 35 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2010-12-01 |
| 1707-R | Irrigation | 1.22 km | 42 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.