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Well permit 6303-R
Well permit · receipt 9104873 · 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 | 100.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1954-04-04 |
| First beneficial use | 1954-04-04 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.68400, -106.12100 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R8.0 E S29SWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6302-R | Irrigation | 0.11 km | 101 ft | — | 1170.0 gpm | 1972-06-11 |
| 116-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.12 km | 145 ft | — | — | — |
| 259-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.12 km | 103 ft | — | — | — |
| 12191-F | Irrigation | 0.19 km | 102 ft | — | — | 1935-06-20 |
| 13551-R | Irrigation | 0.36 km | 100 ft | — | — | 1936-07-01 |
| 6303-R-R | Irrigation | 0.47 km | 95 ft | — | 1200.0 gpm | 1995-06-10 |
| 95220-VE | Irrigation | 0.48 km | — | — | — | — |
| 5949-R-R | Irrigation | 0.52 km | — | — | — | — |
| 5949-R-R | Irrigation | 0.52 km | 92 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 1975-03-17 |
| 5949-R | Irrigation | 0.52 km | 92 ft | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 1993-05-19. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.