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Well permit 16655-
Well permit · receipt 9099226 · Division 3 · Water District 21 · 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: 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 | 550.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1963-08-14 |
| First beneficial use | 1963-08-14 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.39438, -105.81828 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T36.0 N R11.0 E S6SWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16154-R | Irrigation | 0.4 km | 750 ft | — | — | 1916-10-22 |
| 311887- | Domestic, Stock | 0.46 km | — | — | — | — |
| 222596- | Domestic, Stock | 0.6 km | 400 ft | — | — | 1943-04-30 |
| 222596--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.61 km | 300 ft | — | 20.0 gpm | 2000-03-13 |
| 12414- | Domestic, Stock | 0.89 km | 199 ft | — | — | 1962-10-26 |
| 191817- | Domestic, Stock | 1.14 km | 308 ft | — | — | 1996-01-22 |
| 175519- | Domestic, Stock | 1.54 km | 195 ft | — | — | 1994-03-09 |
| 83577- | Stock | 1.88 km | 600 ft | — | — | 1976-06-16 |
| 83571- | Stock | 1.99 km | — | — | — | — |
| 16654- | Stock | 2.03 km | 830 ft | — | — | 1963-08-21 |
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.