Hydrohistorian
DB-046 (1971-2024)
Monitored well · 257 · Division 1 · Water District 8
Its well permit here · Well permit at DWR ↗ · Download levels (CSV)
Denver Basin bedrock
Confined sandstone aquifer; negligible human-timescale recharge — pumping is one-way storage mining.
Because this aquifer does not recharge on a human timescale, a decline here is storage being removed, not a stream being short. It is kept out of the stream-depletion math for that reason.
Water-level record
40 measurements from 1971-11-03 to 2024-05-24. Most recent water-level elevation 5864.87 ft, 225.13 ft below ground.
Over the record the level is no trend at -9.88 ft per decade (p = 0.0648, n = 38). Mann–Kendall with the Hamed–Rao autocorrelation correction, on water-level elevation; rising elevation means more water.
Chart: water level at this well over time, 1971-11-03 to 2024-05-24, 40 measurements. The record is no trend at -9.88 feet per decade (p equals 0.0648), measured on water-level elevation. Rising elevation means more water. The values are downloadable as CSV from the link above.
The well itself
| Aquifer | LOWER DAWSON |
|---|---|
| Designated basin | DENVER BASIN |
| Total depth | 560.0 ft |
| Perforated interval | 437.0–560.0 ft |
| Ground elevation | 6090.0 ft |
| Permit | 49406 |
| Location | 39.53000, -104.74000 |
What this page is not
Monitoring records are irregular: measurements cluster where somebody chose to look, so a trend describes this well's record, not the aquifer as a whole. Levels are DWR's published measurements, unedited. A trend here is not a prediction, and it is not a determination about anyone's water right.