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Well permit 5992-R
Well permit · receipt 9104771 · 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 Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 45.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1949-06-30 |
| First beneficial use | 1949-06-30 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.68455, -106.27527 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R6.0 E S25SWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5993-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 90 ft | — | — | 1938-07-31 |
| 93120- | Domestic | 0.07 km | — | — | — | — |
| 93120--A | Domestic | 0.07 km | — | — | — | — |
| 78447- | Domestic | 0.21 km | 61 ft | — | — | 1975-03-05 |
| 5992-R-R | Irrigation, Stock | 0.23 km | 200 ft | — | 600.0 gpm | 2004-05-10 |
| 242358- | Domestic, Stock | 0.31 km | 100 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2004-06-18 |
| 265085- | Domestic, Stock | 0.33 km | 140 ft | — | 13.0 gpm | 2005-10-18 |
| 5994-R | Irrigation | 0.41 km | 138 ft | — | — | 1951-10-31 |
| 50545-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.56 km | 60 ft | — | — | 2012-04-02 |
| 288164- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.56 km | 60 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.