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Well permit 57489-
Well permit · receipt 9106611 · 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 | 180.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1972-04-17 |
| First beneficial use | 1910-06-15 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.73739, -106.09814 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R8.0 E S4NESE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22922-F | Irrigation | 0.02 km | 100 ft | — | — | 1978-02-17 |
| 45961- | Domestic | 0.29 km | 150 ft | — | — | 1938-06-15 |
| 6863-R | Irrigation | 0.41 km | 98 ft | — | — | — |
| 52702- | Domestic | 0.46 km | 250 ft | — | — | — |
| 6864-R | Irrigation | 0.57 km | 102 ft | — | — | — |
| 23702-F | Irrigation | 0.57 km | 125 ft | — | — | 1978-08-03 |
| 85182--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.58 km | 102 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1976-11-03 |
| 49594-F | Commercial | 0.58 km | — | — | — | — |
| 56863-F | Commercial | 0.58 km | — | — | — | — |
| 85182- | Domestic, Stock | 0.58 km | 100 ft | — | — | 1976-11-03 |
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.