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Well permit 740-R-R
Well permit · receipt 9104263 · 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 | 80.0 ft |
| Driller | SMITH DRILLING (SMITH, F R) |
| Permit issued | 1966-12-22 |
| Well completed | 1967-05-25 |
| First beneficial use | 1932-07-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.61254, -106.10326 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R8.0 E S21SWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64294-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.19 km | — | — | — | — |
| 64737-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.19 km | — | — | — | — |
| 11398-F | Irrigation | 0.19 km | — | — | — | — |
| 178-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.19 km | 986 ft | — | — | — |
| 78959- | Domestic, Stock | 0.38 km | 200 ft | — | — | 1975-08-23 |
| 45036-F | Industrial | 0.41 km | 264 ft | — | 140.0 gpm | 1995-11-28 |
| 743-R-R | Irrigation | 0.42 km | 82 ft | — | 1400.0 gpm | 1967-03-21 |
| 0415396 | Commercial | 0.42 km | — | — | — | — |
| 204483- | Fire | 0.45 km | 85 ft | — | — | 1999-07-20 |
| 743-R | Irrigation | 0.45 km | 32 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.