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Well permit 857-RN
Well permit · receipt 9107426 · Division 3 · Water District 26 · Saguache 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: Stock (category General Purpose).
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 | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 200.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1961-06-21 |
| Well completed | 1951-10-23 |
| First beneficial use | 1951-10-23 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.04005, -105.92941 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T44.0 N R9.0 E S25NWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9288-F | Irrigation | 0.27 km | 135 ft | — | 1500.0 gpm | 1965-07-03 |
| 343726- | Domestic, Stock | 0.28 km | — | — | — | — |
| 16234-F | Irrigation | 0.28 km | 108 ft | — | — | 1972-06-02 |
| 81610-F | Commercial, Industrial, Irrigation, Other | 0.31 km | — | — | — | — |
| 83287-F | Irrigation | 0.31 km | 108 ft | — | 1500.0 gpm | 1972-06-02 |
| 856-RN | Stock | 0.4 km | — | — | — | — |
| 110744- | Domestic | 0.58 km | 560 ft | 0 ft | — | 1980-02-15 |
| 299756- | Domestic, Stock | 0.63 km | — | — | — | — |
| 24697-F | Irrigation | 0.65 km | 120 ft | — | — | 1980-10-06 |
| 337553- | Domestic, Stock | 0.74 km | 130 ft | 4 ft | 10.0 gpm | 2025-03-08 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2022-02-17. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.