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Well permit 54509-F

Well permit · receipt 9300372 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Rio Grande County

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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 General Purpose).

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

StatusPermit Expired
CategoryGeneral Purpose
DrillerL D SPENCER DRILLING & PUMP (SPENCER, LONNIE D.)
Permit issued2000-11-07
Permit expires2002-11-07

Location

Coordinates37.69801, -106.61745 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSN PM, T40.0 N R3.0 E S23NESW

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 →

PermitUse DistanceDepthStatic levelYield Completed
87173-F Household use only 0.1 km 300 ft 160 ft — 2023-04-02
89567-F Household use only 0.1 km 300 ft 160 ft 11.0 gpm 2023-04-02
54979-F Domestic 0.15 km 270 ft — 15.0 gpm 2001-08-01
90676-F Domestic 0.16 km — — — —
88219-F Household use only 0.2 km 205 ft 25 ft — 2023-11-06
59863-F Domestic 0.36 km 165 ft — 15.0 gpm 2003-09-18
90337-F Domestic 0.38 km 325 ft 92 ft — 2025-11-05
55087-F Domestic 0.4 km 190 ft — 15.0 gpm 2001-08-09
223-WCB Colorado Water Conservation Board 0.4 km 34 ft — — —
84683-F Domestic 0.51 km 510 ft 54 ft — 2001-07-11

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.