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Well permit 57539-
Well permit · receipt 9106617 · 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 | 40.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1972-04-17 |
| First beneficial use | 1890-05-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.69410, -106.47661 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R5.0 E S19SWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57539--A | Domestic | 0.0 km | 60 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2003-03-10 |
| 57540- | Domestic | 0.06 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 57538- | Domestic | 0.15 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 0029237A | Domestic | 0.18 km | — | — | — | — |
| 268998- | Domestic | 0.18 km | 60 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 2006-08-17 |
| 57571- | Domestic, Stock | 0.33 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 57569- | Domestic, Stock | 0.36 km | 50 ft | — | — | — |
| 57567- | Domestic, Stock | 0.4 km | 35 ft | — | — | — |
| 57564- | Domestic, Stock | 0.44 km | 45 ft | — | — | — |
| 10209-R | Irrigation | 0.47 km | 30 ft | — | — | 1949-11-30 |
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.