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Well permit 28540-
Well permit · receipt 9112681 · 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 (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 | 49.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1966-08-18 |
| First beneficial use | 1966-08-18 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.08429, -107.69995 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T44.0 N R8.0 W S11NENE |
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 | 0.13 km | 198 ft | — | 3.0 gpm | 1996-11-08 |
| 14443-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.28 km | — | — | — | — |
| 34684--A | Domestic | 0.3 km | 260 ft | — | — | 2016-08-08 |
| 11564-AD | Household use only | 0.41 km | — | — | — | — |
| 74026- | Domestic | 0.41 km | 28 ft | — | — | — |
| 94222- | Household use only | 0.41 km | 685 ft | — | — | 1979-07-28 |
| 6740-F | Domestic, Irrigation | 0.42 km | 136 ft | — | 52.0 gpm | 1965-02-02 |
| 90505-VE | Domestic | 0.49 km | — | — | — | — |
| 158781- | Domestic, Stock | 0.49 km | 30 ft | — | — | — |
| 86351- | Household use only | 0.51 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.