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Well permit 51715-
Well permit · receipt 9106328 · 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 Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Permit issued | 1972-02-25 |
| First beneficial use | 1904-04-28 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.57618, -106.13358 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R8.0 E S31SESE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30305-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.0 km | 19 ft | — | — | 1997-06-12 |
| 33166-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.0 km | 9 ft | — | — | 1998-04-25 |
| 33167-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.0 km | 14 ft | — | — | 1998-04-25 |
| 13750- | Other | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 11472-R | Industrial | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 11473-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 12153-R | Commercial | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 51417- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 180 ft | — | — | — |
| 51708- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 180 ft | — | — | — |
| 53495- | Domestic | 0.05 km | 385 ft | — | — | 1943-04-30 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2011-09-29. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.