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Well permit 97668-
Well permit · receipt 9107126 · 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 Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 86.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1978-04-21 |
| First beneficial use | 1952-05-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.63916, -106.24510 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R7.0 E S7NWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97668--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.02 km | 86 ft | — | — | 1979-03-29 |
| 97668--A | Domestic | 0.24 km | — | — | — | — |
| 302080- | Household use only | 0.26 km | 120 ft | 70 ft | 10.0 gpm | 2016-08-05 |
| 46784-F | Domestic | 0.29 km | 143 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1997-06-03 |
| 264607- | Domestic, Stock | 0.29 km | 160 ft | — | 12.0 gpm | 2005-10-01 |
| 47437-F | Household use only | 0.3 km | 143 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1997-03-26 |
| 44914-F | Domestic | 0.32 km | 125 ft | — | — | 1995-10-25 |
| 57233-F | Domestic | 0.32 km | 164 ft | — | 14.5 gpm | 2003-07-15 |
| 49773-F | Domestic | 0.33 km | 158 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1998-12-31 |
| 250120- | Domestic, Stock | 0.34 km | 100 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2003-07-15 |
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.