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Well permit 55689-
Well permit · receipt 9106518 · 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 Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 55.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1972-04-04 |
| First beneficial use | 1960-10-22 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.69217, -106.31332 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R6.0 E S22SWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55689--A | Household use only | 0.02 km | 74 ft | — | 20.0 gpm | 1981-03-16 |
| 56582--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.19 km | — | — | — | — |
| 56582- | Domestic, Stock | 0.19 km | 34 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1979-03-16 |
| 15890- | Domestic | 0.27 km | 35 ft | — | — | 1963-07-22 |
| 6533-AD | Irrigation | 0.34 km | — | — | — | — |
| 4845-F | Irrigation | 0.43 km | 162 ft | — | — | — |
| 275224- | Domestic, Stock | 0.49 km | 80 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2007-11-02 |
| 246315- | Domestic, Stock | 0.53 km | 100 ft | — | — | — |
| 246315--A | Domestic | 0.53 km | 120 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2004-03-10 |
| 139672- | Domestic | 0.55 km | 88 ft | — | — | 1987-02-01 |
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.