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Well permit 16838-
Well permit · receipt 9101765 · Division 3 · Water District 21 · Conejos 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 |
| First beneficial use | 1963-08-27 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.29645, -106.16866 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T35.0 N R7.0 E S11NENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17603- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 353 ft | — | — | 1963-11-01 |
| 289170- | Stock | 0.22 km | 400 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 2013-01-20 |
| 17603--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.28 km | 361 ft | — | — | 2010-02-25 |
| 107582- | Domestic | 0.98 km | — | — | — | — |
| 171315- | Domestic, Stock | 0.98 km | 325 ft | — | — | 1994-01-28 |
| 73592- | Domestic | 0.98 km | — | — | — | — |
| 171315--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.98 km | 380 ft | — | 5.0 gpm | 2010-12-13 |
| 157104- | Domestic, Stock | 1.32 km | 38 ft | — | — | — |
| 157104--A | Domestic, Stock | 1.38 km | 259 ft | — | — | 1990-05-21 |
| 30378- | Domestic | 1.47 km | 278 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.