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Well permit 72185-
Well permit · receipt 9106918 · 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 | Permit Expired |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 53.0 ft |
| Driller | IRRIGATION ENGINEERING & SUPP. (BURK, COY) |
| Permit issued | 1973-10-29 |
| First beneficial use | 1935-06-01 |
| Permit expires | 1975-10-29 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.62543, -106.16854 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R7.0 E S14NESE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72185--A | Domestic | 0.01 km | — | — | — | — |
| 72185--A | Domestic | 0.01 km | 80 ft | — | 13.0 gpm | 1998-03-07 |
| 326904- | Domestic, Stock | 0.04 km | 125 ft | 20 ft | — | 2022-06-30 |
| 103331- | Domestic | 0.08 km | — | — | — | — |
| 132816- | Domestic | 0.08 km | 88 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1984-01-26 |
| 285377- | Domestic, Stock | 0.23 km | — | — | — | — |
| 296035- | Domestic, Stock | 0.23 km | — | — | — | — |
| 3039-F | Irrigation | 0.33 km | — | — | — | — |
| 972-R | Irrigation | 0.37 km | 110 ft | — | — | — |
| 22730-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.51 km | — | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2026-03-12. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.