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Well permit 53389-
Well permit · receipt 9106389 · 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: Stock (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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 100.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1972-03-06 |
| Well completed | 1890-04-04 |
| First beneficial use | 1890-04-04 |
| Well plugged | 2005-08-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.60846, -106.14790 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R8.0 E S19NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53389--A | Stock | 0.05 km | 46 ft | — | 50.0 gpm | 2004-11-13 |
| 53391--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.09 km | 216 ft | — | — | 1999-12-15 |
| 46338- | Domestic | 0.1 km | — | — | — | — |
| 79897-F | Household use only | 0.1 km | — | — | — | — |
| 197615- | Domestic | 0.12 km | 220 ft | — | — | 1998-03-25 |
| 305514--A | Domestic | 0.21 km | 200 ft | 25 ft | 30.0 gpm | 2017-06-29 |
| 53391- | Domestic | 0.24 km | 187 ft | — | — | 1875-12-31 |
| 341001- | Domestic | 0.25 km | — | — | — | — |
| 341002- | Domestic | 0.25 km | — | — | — | — |
| 245119- | Domestic, Stock | 0.27 km | 140 ft | — | — | — |
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.