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Well permit 56251-
Well permit · receipt 9109080 · 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: Domestic, Stock (category Residential).
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 | Residential |
| Total depth | 40.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1972-03-28 |
| First beneficial use | 1918-08-01 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.06375, -106.11212 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T44.0 N R8.0 E S17NWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 131-WCB | Colorado Water Conservation Board | 0.27 km | 205 ft | — | — | — |
| 56252- | Domestic, Stock | 0.58 km | 99 ft | — | — | — |
| 7082-R | Irrigation | 0.6 km | 200 ft | — | — | — |
| 343637- | Other | 0.79 km | — | — | — | — |
| 10050943 | Augmentation | 0.79 km | — | — | — | — |
| 7084-R | Irrigation | 0.9 km | 200 ft | — | — | 1951-06-01 |
| 170954- | Domestic, Stock | 0.92 km | 39 ft | — | — | — |
| 170954--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.97 km | — | — | — | — |
| 56250- | Domestic, Stock | 0.97 km | 40 ft | — | — | — |
| 170953- | Domestic, Stock | 0.98 km | — | — | — | — |
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.