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Well permit 854-R
Well permit · receipt 9104289 · 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 | 20.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1959-11-18 |
| First beneficial use | 1944-12-30 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.57619, -106.11967 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R8.0 E S32SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8-AD | Irrigation | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 33000-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 9765- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 354 ft | — | — | 1961-09-16 |
| 12846-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 24 ft | — | — | — |
| 12848-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 22 ft | — | — | — |
| 18064- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 326 ft | — | — | 1963-11-29 |
| 19398- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 50 ft | — | — | 1964-04-27 |
| 21146- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 378 ft | — | — | 1964-10-02 |
| 31104- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 123 ft | — | — | 1967-09-10 |
| 31612- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 35 ft | — | — | 1967-07-26 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 1992-03-04. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.