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Well permit 10453-F
Well permit · receipt 9098784 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Alamosa 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: Irrigation (category General Purpose).
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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 300.0 ft |
| Driller | A. E. BIGGS & SON (BIGGS, A E) |
| Permit issued | 1965-11-26 |
| Well completed | 1966-04-21 |
| First beneficial use | 1966-04-18 |
| Well plugged | 1982-05-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.56337, -105.92471 (GPS) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T38.0 N R10.0 E S6NESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0246813B | Industrial | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 10453-F-R | Irrigation | 0.05 km | 212 ft | — | — | 1969-03-15 |
| 10453-F-R | Irrigation | 0.05 km | 200 ft | — | 400.0 gpm | 1981-04-11 |
| 10453-F-R | Irrigation | 0.05 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0404343 | Irrigation | 0.16 km | — | — | — | — |
| 15305-F | Irrigation | 0.19 km | 60 ft | — | — | 1971-05-06 |
| 0312791C | Irrigation | 0.23 km | — | — | — | — |
| 70-AD | Irrigation | 0.25 km | — | — | — | — |
| 28638-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.28 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0440385 | Irrigation | 0.47 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.