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Well permit 31897-
Well permit · receipt 9106108 · 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: Domestic (category Residential).
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 | Residential |
| Total depth | 180.0 ft |
| Driller | SPENCER, D W |
| Permit issued | 1967-08-24 |
| Well completed | 1967-08-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.59554, -106.14884 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R8.0 E S30NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31897--A | Domestic | 0.01 km | 300 ft | — | — | 2004-02-18 |
| 1147- | Domestic | 0.13 km | 25 ft | — | — | — |
| 245067- | Domestic | 0.16 km | 150 ft | — | — | — |
| 245067--A | Domestic | 0.18 km | 158 ft | — | 20.0 gpm | 2003-03-09 |
| 4215- | Domestic | 0.2 km | 200 ft | — | — | 1959-08-28 |
| 4313- | Domestic | 0.2 km | — | — | — | — |
| 7671-F | Irrigation | 0.2 km | — | — | — | — |
| 231571- | Domestic, Stock | 0.23 km | 120 ft | — | — | — |
| 231573- | Irrigation, Stock | 0.25 km | 130 ft | — | — | — |
| 314927- | Commercial | 0.25 km | 150 ft | — | — | 1966-09-30 |
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.