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Well permit 16971-F
Well permit · receipt 9108316 · Division 3 · Water District 25 · 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 | 100.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1976-01-22 |
| First beneficial use | 1975-01-23 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.07461, -105.93566 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T44.0 N R9.0 E S12NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16971-F-R | Irrigation | 0.0 km | 100 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 1980-10-21 |
| 250070- | Stock | 0.43 km | 300 ft | — | — | — |
| 250070--A | Stock | 0.43 km | 200 ft | — | — | 2004-05-18 |
| 248037- | Stock | 0.47 km | 100 ft | — | — | 2003-03-12 |
| 248035- | Domestic, Stock | 0.49 km | 100 ft | — | — | 2003-03-13 |
| 51295- | Domestic, Stock | 0.56 km | 200 ft | — | — | — |
| 331757- | Domestic, Stock | 0.58 km | 120 ft | 7 ft | 15.0 gpm | 2023-09-10 |
| 16972-F | Irrigation | 0.81 km | 100 ft | — | — | 1975-01-23 |
| 44804- | Stock | 0.81 km | 600 ft | — | — | 1972-11-15 |
| 15622-F | Irrigation | 1.15 km | 96 ft | — | — | 1972-05-15 |
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.