Other wells in Adams County

1,546 of the 26,561 well permits in Adams County — 5.8% — are decreed for other.

How this group compares

Adams County holds 8.2% of Colorado’s 18,823 other permits, while holding 4.4% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Other means a use the Division records under this heading.

What happened to these permits

232 of the 1,546 permits decreed for other in Adams County ended with a well the Division was told about — 15.0%. And 69 expired without one: 4.5%.

An expired permit is the trap in a rural sale. A seller can produce a permit that lapsed years ago, and a permit is not a water right — the two are separate, and a purchase turns on both. What an expired permit does and does not mean.

Buying land in Adams County, or need a well drilled?

1,546 well permits are on the Division’s register in Adams County, 69 of them expired. This site tells you what a permit says; it does not drill, and it is not advice on a water right. Tell us where and we pass the request to drillers and water-rights advisers working in Colorado.

We take no commission and we recommend no driller. We have no arrangement with any firm today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

The permits

Part of a bigger picture: all 26,561 permits in Adams County, and every other permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Stock — Lincoln 1,666
• Other — Denver 1,649
• Household Use Only — Douglas 1,632
• Other — Weld 1,623
• Household Use Only — Weld 1,617
• Stock — El Paso 1,562
• Domestic — San Miguel 1,536
• Domestic — Costilla 1,504
• Other — Jefferson 1,503
• Household Use Only — Lake 1,456
• Domestic — Clear Creek 1,443