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Well permit 96866-
Well permit · receipt 9107112 · 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 | 160.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1978-11-15 |
| First beneficial use | 1978-11-15 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.66157, -106.12179 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T40.0 N R8.0 E S32SESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96866--A | Domestic | 0.01 km | 223 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1988-06-17 |
| 7206-R-R | Irrigation | 0.1 km | 84 ft | 35 ft | 35.0 gpm | 2025-06-20 |
| 7206-R | Irrigation | 0.11 km | 70 ft | — | — | — |
| 244140--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.11 km | 200 ft | — | 14.0 gpm | 2002-11-16 |
| 170956- | Domestic | 0.12 km | 90 ft | — | — | — |
| 244140- | Domestic, Stock | 0.13 km | 150 ft | — | — | — |
| 6536-F-R | Irrigation | 0.23 km | 102 ft | — | 1350.0 gpm | 1993-08-20 |
| 6536-F-R | Irrigation | 0.23 km | 102 ft | 8 ft | — | 1993-08-20 |
| 4626- | Stock | 0.28 km | 200 ft | — | — | 1959-11-06 |
| 6968- | Domestic | 0.28 km | 258 ft | — | — | 1960-09-17 |
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.