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Well permit 888-R
Well permit · receipt 9107443 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · 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: Irrigation (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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 80.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1959-11-30 |
| First beneficial use | 1956-03-31 |
| Well plugged | 1985-03-08 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.77285, -105.89848 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T41.0 N R10.0 E S29SWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 888-R-R | Irrigation | 0.24 km | 80 ft | — | 750.0 gpm | 1985-05-16 |
| 87970-F | Commercial, Industrial, Irrigation | 0.24 km | — | — | — | 1985-05-16 |
| 88980-F | Irrigation | 0.24 km | 120 ft | 32 ft | 400.0 gpm | 2024-04-20 |
| 90546-F | Irrigation | 0.24 km | 120 ft | — | — | 2024-04-20 |
| 243957- | Domestic, Stock | 0.28 km | 80 ft | — | — | 2002-12-18 |
| 21862-F | Irrigation | 0.3 km | 95 ft | — | — | 1977-10-27 |
| 209048- | Domestic, Stock | 0.62 km | 625 ft | — | — | — |
| 90545-F | Irrigation | 0.62 km | 83 ft | — | — | 1977-10-28 |
| 22524-F | Irrigation | 0.63 km | — | — | — | — |
| 21863-F | Irrigation | 0.63 km | 83 ft | — | — | 1977-10-28 |
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.