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Well permit 53408-
Well permit · receipt 9106392 · 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: Commercial (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 | 140.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1972-03-17 |
| First beneficial use | 1900-01-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.61012, -106.15472 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R7.0 E S24NWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53408--A | Stock | 0.01 km | 160 ft | — | 40.0 gpm | 2003-07-08 |
| 53409- | Domestic | 0.16 km | 170 ft | — | — | — |
| 53409--A | Domestic | 0.17 km | — | — | — | — |
| 31762-F | Irrigation | 0.23 km | — | — | — | — |
| 48229-F | Irrigation | 0.23 km | 70 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 1987-06-02 |
| 2002001-AB | Other | 0.29 km | — | — | — | — |
| 1610-R | Irrigation | 0.29 km | 45 ft | — | — | — |
| 6381-R | Irrigation | 0.31 km | 48 ft | — | — | — |
| 53198-F | Commercial | 0.32 km | 3,022 ft | — | 500.0 gpm | 2002-01-04 |
| 99-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.35 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.