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Well permit 173-
Well permit · receipt 9114749 · Division 5 · Water District 51 · Grand 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 | 40.0 ft |
| Driller | PURDUE, DONALD |
| Permit issued | 1957-08-13 |
| Well completed | 1957-07-31 |
| First beneficial use | 1957-07-31 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.91731, -105.78275 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T1.0 S R75.0 W S33SWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29064-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 200282- | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.19 km | — | — | — | — |
| 12-WCB | Commercial | 0.25 km | 110 ft | — | — | 1954-06-11 |
| 55-WCB | Domestic | 0.29 km | 41 ft | — | — | 1955-10-28 |
| 0064955C | Other | 0.34 km | 500 ft | — | — | 2025-09-25 |
| 8898-F | Commercial | 0.4 km | 62 ft | — | — | 1958-06-10 |
| 14834-R | Commercial | 0.4 km | 50 ft | — | — | 1947-08-31 |
| 259917- | Household use only | 0.42 km | 601 ft | — | 7.0 gpm | 2005-06-17 |
| 2384- | Domestic | 0.56 km | 56 ft | — | — | 1958-11-06 |
| 13345-R | Commercial | 0.56 km | 45 ft | — | — | 1955-12-31 |
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.