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Well permit 54297-
Well permit · receipt 9106429 · 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 |
| Total depth | 40.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1972-03-28 |
| First beneficial use | 1926-05-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.57465, -106.11764 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R8.0 E S32SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54298- | Domestic | 0.01 km | 286 ft | — | — | — |
| 18065- | Domestic | 0.06 km | 32 ft | — | — | 1964-07-21 |
| 307799- | Domestic | 0.06 km | — | — | — | — |
| 335114- | Domestic | 0.07 km | — | — | — | — |
| 185460- | Domestic | 0.09 km | 60 ft | — | — | — |
| 211968- | Domestic, Stock | 0.09 km | 380 ft | — | — | — |
| 87609-F | Irrigation, Stock | 0.11 km | — | — | — | 1963-08-01 |
| 250128- | Domestic | 0.11 km | 150 ft | — | — | — |
| 250339- | Irrigation | 0.13 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 58994- | Domestic | 0.14 km | 80 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.