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Well permit 70488-
Well permit · receipt 9106913 · 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, Stock (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 |
| Driller | SPENCER, D W |
| Permit issued | 1973-08-08 |
| Well completed | 1973-10-16 |
| First beneficial use | 1973-10-16 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.56308, -106.10681 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T38.0 N R8.0 E S4SESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2514- | Stock | 0.15 km | 200 ft | — | — | 1958-12-06 |
| 7608-F | Irrigation | 0.31 km | 723 ft | — | — | 1957-06-22 |
| 12069-F | Irrigation | 0.42 km | — | — | — | — |
| 6486-AD | Household use only | 0.43 km | — | — | — | — |
| 87531- | Household use only | 0.43 km | 180 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1977-11-30 |
| 90818-F | Household use only | 0.48 km | — | — | — | — |
| 601-R-R | Irrigation | 0.49 km | 60 ft | — | 1250.0 gpm | 1982-01-13 |
| 34578-F | Municipal | 0.51 km | 42 ft | — | 550.0 gpm | 1989-08-15 |
| 189900- | Domestic | 0.52 km | 200 ft | — | — | — |
| 68732-F | Commercial | 0.52 km | 60 ft | — | 140.0 gpm | 2010-04-30 |
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.