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Well permit 78959-
Well permit · receipt 9106982 · 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 | 200.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1975-08-23 |
| First beneficial use | 1975-08-23 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.61122, -106.09929 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R8.0 E S21SWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11398-F | Irrigation | 0.22 km | — | — | — | — |
| 11362- | Domestic | 0.29 km | 27 ft | — | — | 1962-05-07 |
| 4707-F | Irrigation | 0.34 km | 83 ft | — | — | 1963-08-04 |
| 64294-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.35 km | — | — | — | — |
| 64737-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.35 km | — | — | — | — |
| 178-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.35 km | 986 ft | — | — | — |
| 740-R-R | Irrigation | 0.38 km | 80 ft | — | — | 1967-05-25 |
| 222572- | Domestic | 0.4 km | 350 ft | — | — | — |
| 105779- | Domestic, Stock | 0.46 km | — | — | — | — |
| 105779--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.48 km | — | — | — | — |
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.