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Well permit 3985-
Well permit · receipt 9116798 · Division 5 · Water District 38 · Pitkin 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 | 141.0 ft |
| Permit issued | 1959-07-27 |
| Well completed | 1959-06-22 |
| First beneficial use | 1959-09-30 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.22746, -106.86620 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T9.0 S R85.0 W S34SWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 145-GX | Geothermal | 0.07 km | 600 ft | — | — | 2025-06-11 |
| 58857-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.24 km | — | — | — | — |
| 61385-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.24 km | — | — | — | — |
| 20952-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.4 km | — | — | — | — |
| 7355- | Domestic | 0.4 km | 142 ft | — | — | 1960-11-01 |
| 25418- | Domestic | 0.4 km | 145 ft | — | — | 1965-09-24 |
| 162930- | Household use only | 0.58 km | 120 ft | — | 4.5 gpm | — |
| 12683-AD | Household use only | 0.58 km | — | — | — | — |
| 120740- | Household use only | 0.66 km | 200 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1982-06-05 |
| 49165-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.7 km | 42 ft | — | — | 2010-06-07 |
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.