Hydrohistorian
Well permit 61978-
Well permit · receipt 9100995 · 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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 220.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1972-07-05 |
| First beneficial use | 1969-04-20 |
| Well plugged | 2008-10-15 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.47785, -105.81818 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T37.0 N R11.0 E S6NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61978--A | Domestic | 0.01 km | 757 ft | — | 20.0 gpm | 2008-07-28 |
| 153786- | Household use only | 0.06 km | — | — | — | — |
| 279667- | Household use only | 0.06 km | 100 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1989-05-31 |
| 169891- | Household use only | 0.13 km | — | — | — | — |
| 23848- | Domestic | 0.13 km | 185 ft | — | — | 1965-06-20 |
| 254010- | Household use only | 0.13 km | 100 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2003-11-14 |
| 23848--A | Domestic | 0.14 km | 500 ft | 0 ft | 13.0 gpm | 2023-07-29 |
| 231539- | Household use only | 0.17 km | 347 ft | — | — | 2001-04-06 |
| 249773--A | Domestic, Irrigation | 0.17 km | — | — | — | — |
| 213784- | Domestic, Stock | 0.18 km | 50 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.