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Well permit 5480-
Well permit · receipt 9113514 · Division 5 · Water District 45 · Garfield 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 Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 300.0 ft |
| Driller | PINKERTON, JONATHON D |
| Permit issued | 1960-04-08 |
| Well completed | 1960-04-21 |
| First beneficial use | 1960-04-21 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.45410, -108.03580 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T7.0 S R95.0 W S7SWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5480--A | Domestic | 0.0 km | 300 ft | — | 2.0 gpm | 1974-01-14 |
| 204425- | Household use only | 0.05 km | 200 ft | — | 6.0 gpm | 1997-11-12 |
| 170882- | Household use only | 0.1 km | — | — | — | — |
| 170881- | Household use only | 0.11 km | — | — | — | — |
| 170883- | Household use only | 0.11 km | — | — | — | — |
| 170884- | Household use only | 0.12 km | — | — | — | — |
| 170885- | Household use only | 0.13 km | — | — | — | — |
| 68890-F | Stock | 0.33 km | 6 ft | — | — | 1961-12-31 |
| 201130- | Household use only | 0.34 km | — | — | — | — |
| 61933-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.39 km | — | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2010-01-12. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.