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DB-115 SILVER HEIGHTS A1

Monitored well · 299 · Division 1 · Water District 8

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

44 measurements from 1986-10-03 to 2023-05-15. Most recent water-level elevation 4610.0 ft, 1570.0 ft below ground.

Over the record the level is decreasing at -163.93 ft per decade (p = 0.0213, n = 44). 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, 1986-10-03 to 2023-05-15, 44 measurements. The record is decreasing at -163.93 feet per decade (p equals 0.0213), measured on water-level elevation. Rising elevation means more water. The values are downloadable as CSV from the link above.

The well itself

AquiferDENVER / ARAPAHOE
Designated basinDENVER BASIN
Total depth1867.0 ft
Perforated interval1251.0–1867.0 ft
Ground elevation6180.0 ft
Permit17752
Location39.42000, -104.87000
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.