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Well permit 72796-
Well permit · receipt 9106923 · 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 | 51.0 ft |
| Driller | IRRIGATION ENGINEERING & SUPP. (BURK, COY) |
| Permit issued | 1973-12-14 |
| Well completed | 1973-11-29 |
| First beneficial use | 1973-11-29 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.72669, -106.11181 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R8.0 E S9SWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11297-R | Irrigation | 0.01 km | 33 ft | — | — | 1936-08-01 |
| 11299-R | Irrigation | 0.03 km | 112 ft | — | 516.0 gpm | 1952-06-25 |
| 329129- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.15 km | — | — | — | — |
| 14108-R | Irrigation | 0.38 km | 100 ft | — | — | 1954-04-01 |
| 52678- | Domestic | 0.42 km | 240 ft | — | — | — |
| 19336-F | Irrigation | 0.53 km | 102 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 1975-05-10 |
| 1481-R-R | Irrigation | 0.57 km | — | — | — | — |
| 16674-F | Irrigation | 0.57 km | 97 ft | — | — | 1973-10-31 |
| 25119-F | Irrigation | 0.61 km | 103 ft | — | — | 1981-04-18 |
| 14109-R | Irrigation | 0.62 km | 75 ft | — | — | — |
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.