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Well permit 17979-
Well permit · receipt 9116916 · 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 | 44.0 ft |
| Driller | SHELTON DRILLING CORPORATION (SHELTON, TRAVIS) |
| Permit issued | 1963-11-08 |
| Well completed | 1964-09-12 |
| First beneficial use | 1963-09-14 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.21954, -107.22563 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T10.0 S R88.0 W S4NESW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17630- | Domestic | 0.0 km | 27 ft | — | — | 1963-09-25 |
| 58562- | Domestic | 0.22 km | 67 ft | — | — | 1973-12-16 |
| 26072- | Domestic | 0.29 km | 62 ft | — | — | 1965-12-04 |
| 30817-F | Municipal | 0.34 km | 87 ft | — | — | 1986-12-04 |
| 265551- | Household use only | 0.36 km | 135 ft | — | — | 2005-10-28 |
| 229538- | Household use only | 0.36 km | — | — | — | — |
| 20538-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.4 km | — | — | — | — |
| 130366- | Household use only | 0.4 km | 65 ft | — | 21.0 gpm | 1984-09-17 |
| 59089- | Domestic | 0.4 km | — | — | — | — |
| 3693142 | Domestic | 0.4 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.