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Well permit 7273-R
Well permit · receipt 9107800 · Division 3 · Water District 27 · 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 Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 92.0 ft |
| Driller | IRRIGATION ENGINEERING & SUPP. (BURK, COY) |
| Permit issued | 1971-02-24 |
| Well completed | 1971-03-19 |
| First beneficial use | 1938-01-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.78059, -106.16215 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T41.0 N R7.0 E S24NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7273-R-R | Irrigation | 0.01 km | 90 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 2004-03-28 |
| 89226-F | Irrigation | 0.4 km | 130 ft | 42 ft | 600.0 gpm | 2025-06-12 |
| 203424- | Domestic, Stock | 0.48 km | 78 ft | — | 13.0 gpm | 1997-08-30 |
| 642-R | Irrigation | 0.5 km | 100 ft | — | — | 1956-04-01 |
| 62238- | Domestic | 0.52 km | 160 ft | — | — | — |
| 62238--A | Domestic | 0.52 km | 164 ft | — | 14.0 gpm | 2013-02-07 |
| 4958-F | Irrigation | 0.56 km | 102 ft | — | — | 1964-01-08 |
| 62237- | Domestic | 0.56 km | — | — | — | — |
| 62237--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.58 km | 160 ft | — | 50.0 gpm | 1981-07-22 |
| 1583-R | Irrigation | 0.59 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2003-10-24. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.