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Well permit 78964-
Well permit · receipt 9106983 · 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 | 50.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1975-06-20 |
| First beneficial use | 1975-06-20 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.70365, -106.32753 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R6.0 E S21NENW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44046- | Domestic | 0.2 km | 35 ft | — | — | 1970-12-15 |
| 69598- | Domestic | 0.4 km | 50 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1973-02-14 |
| 66727- | Domestic | 0.42 km | 46 ft | — | — | 1973-02-26 |
| 39707- | Stock | 0.43 km | 25 ft | — | — | 1969-12-08 |
| 39707--A | Stock | 0.43 km | — | — | — | — |
| 13603-R | Irrigation | 0.61 km | 100 ft | — | — | 1956-07-10 |
| 276817- | Household use only | 0.61 km | — | — | — | 1956-07-31 |
| 77342- | Domestic | 0.62 km | 35 ft | — | — | 1975-01-21 |
| 6983-AD | Irrigation | 0.65 km | — | — | — | — |
| 263-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.8 km | 115 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.