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Well permit 20159-R
Well permit · receipt 9108409 · 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: 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 Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 120.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1953-08-17 |
| First beneficial use | 1953-08-17 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.02756, -106.11234 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T44.0 N R8.0 E S32NWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20159-R-R | Irrigation | 0.27 km | 120 ft | — | — | — |
| 8893-AD | Irrigation | 0.28 km | — | — | — | — |
| 19059-F-R | Irrigation | 0.28 km | 200 ft | 25 ft | 950.0 gpm | 1975-10-22 |
| 87920-F | Irrigation | 0.33 km | 200 ft | 40 ft | 560.0 gpm | 2023-04-21 |
| 87919-F | Irrigation | 0.33 km | 85 ft | 26 ft | 271.0 gpm | 2023-04-18 |
| 20162-R | Irrigation | 0.39 km | 211 ft | — | — | 1953-04-28 |
| 37873-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.4 km | — | — | — | — |
| 19058--R | Irrigation | 0.63 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0235027B | Irrigation | 0.63 km | — | — | — | — |
| 195-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.63 km | 215 ft | — | — | — |
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.