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Well permit 56873-
Well permit · receipt 9106587 · 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 | 42.0 ft |
| Driller | COOPER DRILLING INC. (COOPER, JAMES G) |
| Permit issued | 1972-04-13 |
| Well completed | 1972-10-17 |
| First beneficial use | 1972-10-17 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.67428, -106.65056 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R3.0 E S33SWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62524-F | Commercial, Domestic | 0.01 km | 45 ft | — | 30.0 gpm | 2005-06-23 |
| 62524-F-R | Commercial | 0.03 km | — | — | — | 2005-06-23 |
| 62977-F | Commercial, Domestic | 0.03 km | — | — | — | — |
| 39648-F | Commercial | 0.13 km | 39 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1991-09-12 |
| 27739-F | Commercial | 0.14 km | — | — | — | 1985-05-10 |
| 3634340 | Commercial | 0.15 km | — | — | — | — |
| 15469- | Stock | 0.16 km | 20 ft | — | — | 1963-05-22 |
| 42121-F | Domestic | 0.19 km | 55 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1993-05-05 |
| 55688- | Domestic | 0.19 km | 44 ft | — | — | — |
| 64029-F | Domestic | 0.19 km | 40 ft | — | 13.0 gpm | 2006-05-20 |
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.