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Well permit 1559-R-R
Well permit · receipt 9305719 · Division 3 · Water District 24 · 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 |
| Driller | COOPER DRILLING LLC (COOPER, DAVID H.) |
| Permit issued | 2015-03-10 |
| Permit expires | 2017-03-10 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.18205, -105.56410 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | C PM, T3.0 N R73.0 W S33SENW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 299361- | Stock | 0.05 km | 586 ft | — | — | — |
| 1560-R-R | Irrigation | 0.06 km | 586 ft | — | — | 2015-11-03 |
| 1559-R | Irrigation | 0.29 km | — | — | — | — |
| 1560-R | Irrigation | 0.3 km | 586 ft | — | — | 1954-08-01 |
| 51068- | Domestic | 0.62 km | 131 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1974-03-19 |
| 266982- | Domestic, Stock | 0.97 km | 130 ft | — | — | — |
| 266982--A | Domestic, Irrigation | 0.97 km | 310 ft | — | — | 2005-12-15 |
| 56275- | Domestic | 1.04 km | 170 ft | — | — | — |
| 22154-F | Domestic, Stock | 1.09 km | 300 ft | — | — | — |
| 5556-AD | Irrigation | 1.1 km | — | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2026-04-29. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.