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Well permit 543-R

Well permit · receipt 9104231 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Rio Grande County

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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

StatusWell Constructed
CategoryGeneral Purpose
Total depth280.0 ft
Permit issued1959-08-17
First beneficial use1940-12-30

Location

Coordinates37.49688, -106.11008 (Spotted from quarters)
PLSSN PM, T38.0 N R8.0 E S33SWNW

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 →

PermitUse DistanceDepthStatic levelYield Completed
542-R Irrigation 0.0 km 320 ft — — —
538-R Irrigation 0.4 km 200 ft — — —
544-R Irrigation 0.57 km 160 ft — — —
534-R Irrigation 0.81 km 80 ft — — —
535-R Irrigation 0.81 km 180 ft — — —
536-R Irrigation 0.81 km 280 ft — — —
537-R Irrigation 0.81 km 200 ft — — —
545-R Irrigation 0.81 km 220 ft — — —
9185-F Irrigation 0.81 km 1,060 ft — — 1966-01-31
539-R Irrigation 0.9 km 300 ft — — 1905-01-01

Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 1998-10-09. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.