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Well permit 40782-
Well permit · receipt 9112699 · 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 | 165.0 ft |
| Well completed | 1970-04-03 |
| First beneficial use | 1970-04-03 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.12456, -107.73699 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T45.0 N R8.0 W S27SWNW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40944- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 163 ft | — | — | 1970-04-23 |
| 240166- | Household use only | 0.17 km | 20 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2002-05-16 |
| 12853-TH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.57 km | — | — | — | — |
| 109776- | Household use only | 0.61 km | 40 ft | — | — | 1979-12-15 |
| 161222- | Household use only | 0.61 km | 63 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1991-09-15 |
| 109776--A | Household use only | 0.62 km | 58 ft | 12 ft | — | 2022-11-07 |
| 113783- | Domestic | 0.68 km | 30 ft | — | 75.0 gpm | 1981-10-17 |
| 66773-F | Fire | 0.68 km | — | — | — | 1995-03-01 |
| 152075- | Domestic, Stock | 0.71 km | 5 ft | — | — | — |
| 203052- | Domestic | 0.75 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.