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Well permit 491-WCB
Well permit · receipt C210491 · Division 2 · Water District 10 · El Paso 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: Stock (category Colorado Water Conservation Board).
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 | Colorado Water Conservation Board |
| Total depth | 30.0 ft |
| Driller | TOWNLEY DRILLING (TOWNLEY, WILLIAM B) |
| Permit issued | 1953-09-09 |
| First beneficial use | 1953-08-07 |
Location
| Coordinates | 38.99208, -104.39800 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T12.0 S R63.0 W S24SENW |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 273038- | Stock | 0.0 km | 30 ft | — | — | 1953-08-07 |
| 304603- | Domestic | 0.29 km | — | — | — | — |
| 334183- | Domestic, Stock | 0.33 km | 300 ft | 75 ft | 14.0 gpm | 2024-06-01 |
| 79927- | Stock | 0.39 km | 60 ft | — | — | 1976-06-06 |
| 85069- | Domestic | 0.46 km | 170 ft | — | — | 1977-08-12 |
| 338762- | Domestic, Stock | 0.51 km | 175 ft | 44 ft | 14.0 gpm | 2025-05-20 |
| 47780- | Domestic | 0.56 km | 95 ft | — | — | 1971-07-30 |
| 48584- | Domestic | 0.56 km | — | — | — | — |
| 50118- | Domestic | 0.56 km | — | — | — | 1971-10-07 |
| 84860- | Stock | 0.57 km | 115 ft | — | — | 1976-07-27 |
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.