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Well permit 97180-
Well permit · receipt 9117478 · 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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 200.0 ft |
| Driller | MOUNTAIN DRILLING CO. (MCVEY, ORA) |
| Permit issued | 1978-03-31 |
| Well completed | 1978-05-31 |
| First beneficial use | 1978-07-01 |
| Permit expires | 1980-03-31 |
| Well plugged | 2001-08-15 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.24815, -106.90191 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T9.0 S R85.0 W S20SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97180--A | Domestic | 0.01 km | 460 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2006-07-27 |
| 234729- | Domestic | 0.03 km | 235 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 2002-10-09 |
| 36768-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.21 km | — | — | — | — |
| 97180--A | Domestic | 0.21 km | 360 ft | — | 6.0 gpm | 1988-01-21 |
| 80313- | Domestic | 0.22 km | — | — | — | — |
| 114651--A | Domestic | 0.22 km | 500 ft | 71 ft | 2.0 gpm | 2020-11-17 |
| 114651--A | Domestic | 0.22 km | 310 ft | 0 ft | — | 2022-05-27 |
| 70537- | Household use only | 0.25 km | — | — | — | — |
| 114651- | Domestic | 0.28 km | — | — | — | — |
| 144447- | Domestic, Stock | 0.28 km | 300 ft | — | 8.0 gpm | 1986-07-31 |
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.