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Well permit 57487-
Well permit · receipt 9106609 · 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 | 200.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1972-04-17 |
| First beneficial use | 1910-03-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.74784, -106.10838 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R8.0 E S4NWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6010-R | Irrigation | 0.2 km | 76 ft | — | — | 1955-07-05 |
| 6154-R | Irrigation | 0.27 km | 101 ft | — | — | 1944-11-30 |
| 289050- | Household use only | 0.27 km | 104 ft | — | — | 2012-08-29 |
| 34815-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.28 km | — | — | — | — |
| 35365-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.28 km | 25 ft | — | — | 1998-12-29 |
| 36751-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.28 km | 18 ft | — | — | 1999-08-13 |
| 13343-F | Commercial | 0.28 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1968-10-06 |
| 3430-F | Commercial | 0.28 km | 200 ft | — | — | 1962-02-06 |
| 8767- | Domestic | 0.28 km | — | — | — | — |
| 10968- | Domestic | 0.28 km | 27 ft | — | — | 1962-04-11 |
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.