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Well permit 117708-
Well permit · receipt 9117516 · 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 | 203.0 ft |
| Driller | STEVE SHELTON DRILLING, INC. (SHELTON, STEVE) |
| Permit issued | 1980-12-29 |
| Well completed | 1981-04-23 |
| Permit expires | 1982-12-29 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.20315, -106.80839 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T10.0 S R84.0 W S7NWNE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13690-TH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.15 km | 490 ft | — | — | 1988-06-21 |
| 152200- | Household use only | 0.15 km | 490 ft | — | — | 1988-06-21 |
| 165636- | Domestic | 0.34 km | — | — | — | — |
| 174463- | Domestic | 0.34 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0011857 | Domestic | 0.36 km | — | — | — | — |
| 32350-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.36 km | — | — | — | — |
| 33583-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.36 km | — | — | — | — |
| 19699-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.4 km | — | — | — | — |
| 20662-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.42 km | 340 ft | — | — | 1993-05-14 |
| 171016- | Domestic | 0.45 km | — | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2026-02-26. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.