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DB-011 ADAMS CO.

Monitored well · 260 · Division 1 · Water District 2

Its well permit here · Well permit at DWR ↗ · DWR structure record ↗ · Its structure dossier here · 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

37 measurements from 1988-04-27 to 2025-04-30. Most recent water-level elevation 4996.26 ft, 108.74 ft below ground.

Over the record the level is no trend at -10.73 ft per decade (p = 0.2664, n = 36). 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, 1988-04-27 to 2025-04-30, 37 measurements. The record is no trend at -10.73 feet per decade (p equals 0.2664), measured on water-level elevation. Rising elevation means more water. The values are downloadable as CSV from the link above.

The well itself

AquiferLOWER ARAPAHOE
Designated basinDENVER BASIN
Total depth296.0 ft
Perforated interval190.0–280.0 ft
Ground elevation5105.0 ft
Permit5191
Location39.93000, -104.88000
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.