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Well permit 6740-F
Well permit · receipt 9112653 · Division 4 · Water District 68 · Ouray 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, 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 | 136.0 ft |
| Driller | ROY QUINN DRILLING CO. (QUINN, ROY H) |
| Well completed | 1965-02-02 |
| First beneficial use | 1965-02-02 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.08672, -107.70355 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T44.0 N R8.0 W S2SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 198161- | Household use only | 0.37 km | 198 ft | — | 3.0 gpm | 1996-11-08 |
| 28540- | Domestic | 0.42 km | 49 ft | — | — | 1966-08-18 |
| 188644- | Domestic | 0.45 km | 263 ft | — | 5.0 gpm | 1996-05-02 |
| 14443-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.49 km | — | — | — | — |
| 12316-AD | Commercial, Domestic | 0.51 km | — | — | — | — |
| 12297-AD | Other | 0.53 km | — | — | — | — |
| 30058- | Domestic | 0.53 km | 111 ft | — | — | 1967-03-14 |
| 208384- | Household use only | 0.55 km | 98 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1998-05-08 |
| 26590-F | Domestic | 0.61 km | — | — | — | — |
| 40363-F | Commercial, Domestic | 0.61 km | 525 ft | — | — | 1983-07-01 |
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.