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Well permit 51871-
Well permit · receipt 9100272 · 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: Domestic (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 | 600.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1972-02-29 |
| First beneficial use | 1906-07-26 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.40169, -105.95565 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T37.0 N R9.0 E S35SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10191-R | Domestic, Irrigation | 0.14 km | 800 ft | — | — | 1952-04-15 |
| 20857-R | Irrigation | 0.16 km | 1,872 ft | — | — | 1956-07-25 |
| 10192-R | Domestic, Irrigation | 0.17 km | 1,872 ft | — | — | 1956-07-25 |
| 51872- | Domestic | 0.33 km | 750 ft | — | — | — |
| 337557- | Domestic, Stock | 0.34 km | 240 ft | 12 ft | — | 2025-09-04 |
| 342842- | Domestic, Stock | 0.36 km | — | — | — | — |
| 30686- | Domestic | 0.41 km | 19 ft | — | — | 1967-05-17 |
| 51872--A | Domestic | 0.44 km | — | — | — | — |
| 54602--A | Stock | 0.46 km | — | — | — | — |
| 54600- | Stock | 0.5 km | 150 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.