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Well permit 68573-
Well permit · receipt 9109389 · 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 | 270.0 ft |
| Driller | BIGGS AND FREEL (BIGGS, ELMER E) |
| Permit issued | 1973-04-19 |
| Well completed | 1975-04-03 |
| First beneficial use | 1975-04-03 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.06229, -106.02887 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T44.0 N R9.0 E S18NWSW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20361-R-R | Irrigation | 0.54 km | — | — | 1346.0 gpm | 1953-11-22 |
| 20361-R | Irrigation | 0.54 km | 568 ft | — | — | 1953-11-22 |
| 20362-R-R | Irrigation | 0.6 km | 613 ft | — | 817.0 gpm | — |
| 20362-R | Irrigation | 0.6 km | 613 ft | — | — | 1953-02-24 |
| 164979- | Domestic, Stock | 0.63 km | — | — | — | — |
| 216782- | Domestic, Stock | 0.67 km | — | — | — | — |
| 6808-AD | Irrigation | 0.74 km | — | — | — | — |
| 38333- | Stock | 0.74 km | 200 ft | — | — | 1969-06-27 |
| 265258- | Domestic, Irrigation | 0.85 km | 200 ft | — | — | 2005-12-07 |
| 15262-R | Irrigation | 0.86 km | 201 ft | — | — | 1952-02-02 |
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.