Domestic wells in Alamosa County

3,719 of the 10,088 well permits in Alamosa County — 36.9% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Alamosa County holds 1.5% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 1.7% of the register overall — so it is under-represented in this use.

Domestic means household water, and usually a little more — the commonest decreed use in Colorado by a wide margin.

What happened to these permits

2,459 of the 3,719 permits decreed for domestic in Alamosa County ended with a well the Division was told about — 66.1%. And 505 expired without one: 13.6%.

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 Alamosa County, or need a well drilled?

3,719 well permits are on the Division’s register in Alamosa County, 505 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 10,088 permits in Alamosa County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Household Use Only — Summit 4,534
• Domestic — Routt 4,390
• Domestic — Rio Grande 4,314
• Domestic — Logan 4,286
• Domestic — Gunnison 4,179
• Monitoring/sampling — Boulder 3,864
• Domestic — Morgan 3,592
• Household Use Only — Fremont 3,535
• Domestic — Yuma 3,411
• Household Use Only — Clear Creek 3,399
• Stock — Yuma 3,302