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Well permit 54980-F

Well permit · receipt 9300509 · 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

StatusWell Constructed
CategoryGeneral Purpose
Total depth40.0 ft
DrillerNWP DRILLING & CONSULTING (NEWMYER, HALSEY R.)
Permit issued2001-02-23
Well completed2001-03-17
Permit expires2003-02-23

Location

Coordinates37.67793, -106.60740 (Spotted from section lines)
PLSSN PM, T40.0 N R3.0 E S35NENE

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
57644-F Household use only 0.05 km 60 ft — 15.0 gpm 2002-08-12
50314-F Domestic 0.17 km 46 ft 13 ft 15.0 gpm 2000-08-02
54470-F Domestic 0.17 km — — — 2000-09-12
89891-F Household use only 0.17 km 500 ft 3 ft — 2025-06-09
57651-F Domestic 0.19 km 60 ft — 15.0 gpm 2003-07-18
56690-F Domestic 0.23 km 60 ft — — 2002-05-11
205898- Domestic 0.26 km 45 ft — — 1920-07-01
205898--A Domestic, Stock 0.26 km 60 ft — 15.0 gpm 2001-02-05
54510-F Commercial 0.28 km — — — —
205899- Domestic 0.29 km 35 ft — — 1964-12-02

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.