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Well permit 16521-F-R
Well permit · receipt 9302428 · Division 3 · Water District 35 · Costilla 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: Irrigation (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
| Status | Permit Expired |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
| Total depth | 106.0 ft |
| Driller | ROCKY MOUNTAIN WATERWORKS LLC (PHYTHIAN, DONALD L.) |
| Permit issued | 2004-04-09 |
| Well completed | 2004-04-27 |
| Permit expires | 2006-04-09 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.43496, -105.56430 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T30.0 S R73.0 W S17SWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16521-F | Irrigation | 0.05 km | 110 ft | — | — | 1973-07-18 |
| 16521-F-R | Irrigation | 0.15 km | 107 ft | — | 800.0 gpm | 1983-07-25 |
| 16521-F-R | Irrigation | 0.29 km | 107 ft | — | 720.0 gpm | 2006-05-05 |
| 88066-F | Irrigation | 0.3 km | — | — | — | 2006-05-05 |
| 44441-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.39 km | — | — | — | — |
| 44442-MH | Monitoring/Sampling | 0.52 km | — | — | — | — |
| 4346-AD | Irrigation | 0.57 km | — | — | — | — |
| 340487- | Household use only | 1.22 km | — | — | — | — |
| 90085-F | Household use only | 1.3 km | 120 ft | 50 ft | 15.0 gpm | 2026-02-13 |
| 48756-F | Industrial, Irrigation | 1.32 km | 125 ft | — | — | 1973-07-09 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2006-04-18. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.