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Well permit 448-R
Well permit · receipt 9104203 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Rio Grande 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: Irrigation (category General Purpose).
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 | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 197.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1959-07-22 |
| First beneficial use | 1954-06-11 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.46444, -106.12818 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T37.0 N R8.0 E S8NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10948-AD | Irrigation | 0.57 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0014209 | Other | 0.57 km | — | — | — | — |
| 22402-F | Irrigation | 0.57 km | 240 ft | — | — | 1978-08-18 |
| 14-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.63 km | 197 ft | — | — | — |
| 36-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.63 km | 88 ft | — | — | — |
| 250129- | Domestic, Stock | 0.65 km | 165 ft | — | — | — |
| 250129--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.66 km | — | — | — | — |
| 20689-R | Irrigation | 0.89 km | 181 ft | — | 1011.0 gpm | 1956-05-01 |
| 160700- | Stock | 0.92 km | 59 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1991-10-17 |
| 31258- | Domestic, Stock | 0.98 km | 280 ft | — | — | 1967-06-15 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 1998-10-19. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.