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Well permit 70487-
Well permit · receipt 9104015 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Mineral 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 Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 28.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1973-08-08 |
| First beneficial use | 1960-12-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.73077, -106.72061 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R2.0 E S11SWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70487--A | Domestic | 0.0 km | 50 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1974-06-19 |
| 337691- | Domestic, Stock | 0.07 km | 200 ft | 22 ft | 5.0 gpm | 2025-05-12 |
| 277344- | Household use only | 0.33 km | 300 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 2008-07-29 |
| 45304- | Domestic | 0.39 km | 79 ft | — | — | 1972-02-01 |
| 10045675 | Household use only, Irrigation | 0.4 km | — | — | — | — |
| 40722- | Domestic | 0.42 km | 48 ft | — | — | 1970-04-21 |
| 305364- | Household use only | 0.44 km | 325 ft | 25 ft | 7.0 gpm | 2017-05-08 |
| 244562- | Household use only | 0.45 km | — | — | — | — |
| 89977-F | Household use only | 0.49 km | 100 ft | 30 ft | — | 2025-08-03 |
| 270028- | Household use only | 0.49 km | — | — | — | — |
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.