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Well permit 78448-
Well permit · receipt 9106976 · 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 | 40.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1920-12-30 |
| First beneficial use | 1920-12-30 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.71766, -106.22275 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R7.0 E S17NENE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94544- | Domestic, Stock | 0.07 km | 100 ft | — | — | 1977-09-02 |
| 94544--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.07 km | — | — | — | — |
| 78449- | Stock | 0.09 km | 60 ft | — | — | 1956-10-22 |
| 77338--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.25 km | — | — | — | — |
| 77338--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.25 km | 98 ft | — | 0.1 gpm | 1978-03-21 |
| 77338- | Domestic, Stock | 0.26 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 221173- | Household use only | 0.27 km | — | — | — | — |
| 254515- | Household use only | 0.27 km | — | — | — | — |
| 1842-R | Irrigation | 0.43 km | 100 ft | — | — | 1960-03-04 |
| 9504-F | Irrigation | 0.43 km | 213 ft | — | — | 1965-06-21 |
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.