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Well permit 55509-
Well permit · receipt 9106488 · 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 | 1972-04-04 |
| First beneficial use | 1930-07-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.40940, -106.05309 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T37.0 N R8.0 E S36SENW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55508- | Domestic | 0.13 km | 200 ft | — | — | — |
| 55510- | Domestic | 0.13 km | 200 ft | — | — | — |
| 55516- | Domestic | 0.4 km | 200 ft | — | — | — |
| 64137-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.42 km | — | — | — | — |
| 64758-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.42 km | — | — | — | — |
| 334581- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.42 km | 20 ft | 6 ft | — | 2023-05-17 |
| 18342- | Stock | 0.51 km | 93 ft | — | — | 1963-12-28 |
| 55515- | Domestic | 0.58 km | 200 ft | — | — | — |
| 30195- | Stock | 0.63 km | 550 ft | — | — | — |
| 55507- | Domestic | 0.66 km | 300 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.