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Well permit 56796-
Well permit · receipt 9100692 · 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 | 240.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1972-04-13 |
| First beneficial use | 1951-10-23 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.42463, -106.02080 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T37.0 N R9.0 E S29SWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60696- | Domestic | 0.01 km | 215 ft | — | — | — |
| 13351-R | Irrigation | 0.02 km | 490 ft | — | — | — |
| 56794- | Domestic | 0.17 km | 150 ft | — | — | — |
| 56795- | Domestic | 0.19 km | 280 ft | — | — | — |
| 56805- | Domestic | 0.24 km | 115 ft | — | — | — |
| 208208- | Domestic, Stock | 0.38 km | 240 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1998-07-10 |
| 13352-R | Irrigation | 0.41 km | — | — | — | — |
| 8734-R-R | Irrigation | 0.43 km | 562 ft | 12 ft | — | 2016-08-19 |
| 8734-R | Irrigation | 0.49 km | 562 ft | — | — | 1944-12-30 |
| 56797- | Domestic | 0.49 km | 255 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.