Hydrohistorian
Well permit 3040-F
Well permit · receipt 9104553 · 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 | 85.0 ft |
| Driller | SMITH DRILLING (SMITH, F R) |
| Well completed | 1961-04-04 |
| First beneficial use | 1961-04-04 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.71364, -106.14653 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R8.0 E S18SWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3253-F | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 110 ft | — | — | 1961-07-05 |
| 3222-F | Irrigation | 0.2 km | 110 ft | — | — | 1961-06-23 |
| 239-R | Irrigation | 0.26 km | 114 ft | — | — | — |
| 238-R-R | Irrigation | 0.28 km | 98 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 1981-08-25 |
| 60268- | Domestic | 0.31 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 60266- | Domestic | 0.32 km | 400 ft | — | — | — |
| 334621- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.38 km | 65 ft | 45 ft | — | 2023-04-03 |
| 15863-R | Irrigation | 0.45 km | 120 ft | — | — | 1934-07-01 |
| 9305515 | Domestic | 0.61 km | — | — | — | — |
| 60268--A | Domestic | 0.61 km | 101 ft | — | 20.0 gpm | 2015-03-24 |
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.