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Well permit 55562-
Well permit · receipt 9106496 · 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 | 500.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1972-04-04 |
| First beneficial use | 1951-06-15 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.55245, -106.27112 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T38.0 N R6.0 E S12NESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 150250--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.04 km | — | — | — | — |
| 150250- | Domestic, Stock | 0.07 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 119423- | Household use only | 1.15 km | — | — | — | — |
| 212459- | Domestic, Stock | 1.21 km | — | — | — | — |
| 341772- | Domestic, Stock | 1.36 km | 300 ft | 100 ft | — | 2026-05-06 |
| 212461- | Domestic, Stock | 1.4 km | — | — | — | — |
| 266726- | Domestic, Stock | 1.53 km | 460 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2006-03-20 |
| 212458- | Domestic, Stock | 1.57 km | — | — | — | — |
| 212460- | Domestic, Stock | 1.65 km | — | — | — | — |
| 212457- | Domestic, Stock | 1.76 km | — | — | — | — |
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.