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Well permit 12879-R
Well permit · receipt 9105438 · 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 |
| Permit issued | 1960-04-26 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.73558, -106.28941 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R6.0 E S2SESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14467-F-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 12878-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 14467-F | Irrigation | 0.2 km | 43 ft | — | — | 1950-08-10 |
| 256388- | Domestic | 0.31 km | 63 ft | — | — | — |
| 256388--A | Domestic | 0.31 km | 160 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2004-04-07 |
| 42655-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.4 km | — | — | — | — |
| 262499- | Domestic | 0.42 km | 65 ft | — | — | — |
| 262499--A | Domestic | 0.42 km | 140 ft | — | 13.0 gpm | 2006-01-04 |
| 44770-F | Irrigation | 0.61 km | 130 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 1996-03-25 |
| 44770-F-R | Irrigation | 0.61 km | 250 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 2005-05-13 |
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.