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Well permit 51696-
Well permit · receipt 9106318 · 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 |
| Permit issued | 1972-02-25 |
| First beneficial use | 1945-08-15 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.58888, -106.15063 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R7.0 E S36NENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51696--A | Commercial | 0.0 km | 200 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 2004-08-18 |
| 131881- | Commercial | 0.08 km | — | — | — | — |
| 142820- | Commercial | 0.08 km | 151 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1989-01-26 |
| 60448--A | Domestic | 0.13 km | 300 ft | 6 ft | 20.0 gpm | 2018-01-28 |
| 60448- | Domestic | 0.14 km | — | — | — | — |
| 240681- | Domestic | 0.15 km | 200 ft | — | — | — |
| 240682- | Domestic | 0.15 km | 50 ft | — | — | — |
| 127799- | Commercial | 0.19 km | 167 ft | — | — | 1982-10-05 |
| 9380-AD | Commercial | 0.2 km | — | — | — | — |
| 132442- | Domestic | 0.2 km | 150 ft | — | — | 1983-09-03 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2004-06-17. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.