Hydrohistorian
DB-064 SMITH
Monitored well · 46210 · Division 1 · Water District 1
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
21 measurements from 2006-04-27 to 2025-04-23. Most recent water-level elevation 6545.68 ft, 132.32 ft below ground.
Over the record the level is decreasing at -3.41 ft per decade (p = 0.0001, n = 20). 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, 2006-04-27 to 2025-04-23, 21 measurements. The record is decreasing at -3.41 feet per decade (p equals 0.0001), measured on water-level elevation. Rising elevation means more water. The values are downloadable as CSV from the link above.
The well itself
| Aquifer | UPPER DAWSON |
|---|---|
| Designated basin | DENVER BASIN |
| Total depth | 378.0 ft |
| Perforated interval | 220.0–360.0 ft |
| Ground elevation | 6678.0 ft |
| Reported yield | 20.0 gpm |
| Permit | 254276 |
| Location | 39.33000, -104.55000 |
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.