Well permits in Broomfield County

1,127 well permits — 0.2% of Colorado’s register. The median well here is 34 feet deep, against 148 feet statewide.

1,127Permits

34 ftMedian depth

244Expired

1,114Denver Basin aquifer

How deep people drill in Broomfield County

This is the part a buyer actually wants, and it is not published anywhere else. The figures below are medians over the permits where the Division was told — a mean would be carried away by a handful of industrial wells.

Medians, on the permits where the Division was told — never a mean, which a few industrial wells would carry away
Measurement	Median	90th percentile	Colorado median
Depth	34 ft	880 ft	148 ft — shallower here (622 permits, 55 %)
Yield	10 gpm	15 gpm	10 gpm — the same here (77 permits, 7 %)
Static water level	30 ft	500 ft	58 ft — lower here (312 permits, 28 %)

What the permits allow

A well permit is not a general right to water: it names what the water may be used for, and the narrowest of them — household use only — means inside the house and nothing else.

Decreed use	Permits	Share
Monitoring/sampling	582	51.6%
Domestic	270	24.0%
Other	87	7.7%
Not stated	72	6.4%
Commercial	33	2.9%
Household Use Only	27	2.4%
Irrigation	18	1.6%
Municipal	17	1.5%
Geothermal	8	0.7%
Stock	6	0.5%
Industrial	5	0.4%
Dewatering	2	0.2%

What happened to these permits

503 of the 1,127 permits in Broomfield County ended with a well the Division was told about — 44.6%. And 244 expired without one: 21.7%.

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.

Status	Permits	Share
Well Constructed	503	44.6%
Well Abandoned	250	22.2%
Permit Expired	244	21.7%
Permit Issued	27	2.4%
Permit Canceled	26	2.3%
Application Denied	15	1.3%
Application Information Requested	15	1.3%
Well Replaced - Abandonment Required	13	1.2%
Application Received	12	1.1%
NA	7	0.6%

Which aquifers

Aquifer	Permits	Share
All Unnamed Aquifers	755	67.0%
Not stated	118	10.5%
Alluvial	99	8.8%
Laramie Fox Hills	66	5.9%
Arapahoe	42	3.7%
Quaternary Alluvium	17	1.5%
Laramie-fox Hills	14	1.2%
Lower Arapahoe	10	0.9%
Laramie	2	0.2%
Upper Dawson	2	0.2%

When the permits were issued

Issued in	Permits	Share
2020s	189	16.8%
2010s	120	10.6%
2000s	199	17.7%
1990s	244	21.7%
1980s	70	6.2%
1970s	57	5.1%
1960s	25	2.2%
1950s	28	2.5%
1910s	1	0.1%

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

1,127 well permits are on the Division’s register in Broomfield County, 244 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.

Permits on record in Broomfield County

Well permits, Broomfield County — 110 of the 110 shown carry the subdivision or plat name the applicant gave; a 0 means the Division was never told, not a measurement of zero
Subdivision, or the permit number	Status	Decreed use	Depth (ft)	Yield (gpm)	Year
Silva Estates permit 325406-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	930	10	2022
Wilcox permit 324853-	Well Constructed	Domestic	0	0	2021
Marini permit 315191-	Well Constructed	Domestic	0	12	2019
Wadsworth (filing: 1) permit 315807-	Well Constructed	Commercial	0	10	2019
Curt's permit 38351-F-R	Well Constructed	Domestic	840	7	2019
Northmoor Estates (filing: 2) permit 284039-	Well Constructed	Irrigation	24	0	2010
Wilcox permit 67896-F	Well Constructed	Domestic	0	0	2000
Vista Ridge (filing: A) permit 48113-MH	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	59	0	2008
Vista Ridge (filing: A) permit 48114-MH	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	58	0	2006
Lambertson Farms permit 47397-MH	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	40	0	2007
Lambertson Farms permit 268383-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	34	0	2005
Lambertson Farms permit 268384-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	31	0	2005
Lambertson Farms permit 268385-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	32	0	2005
Lambertson Farms permit 268386-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	34	0	2005
Lambertson Farms permit 44676-MH	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	33	0	2005
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 63502-F	Well Constructed	Other	43	0.25	2004
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 63503-F	Well Constructed	Other	43	0	2004
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 63504-F	Well Constructed	Other	43	0.25	2004
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 63505-F	Well Constructed	Other	46	0.25	2004
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 63506-F	Well Constructed	Other	45	0	2004
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 63507-F	Well Constructed	Other	45	0.25	2004
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 63508-F	Well Constructed	Other	51	0.25	2005
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 63509-F	Well Constructed	Other	51	0.25	2004
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 63510-F	Well Constructed	Other	51	0.25	2004
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255346-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	31	0	2003
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255019-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	36	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255020-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	36	0	2003
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255021-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	36	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255022-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	36	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255023-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	36	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255024-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	36	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255025-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	36	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 60624-F	Well Constructed	Other	35	5	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255026-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	27	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255027-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	36	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255028-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	39	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255029-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	36	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255030-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	43	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255031-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	49	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255032-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	39	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255033-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	34	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255034-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	24	0	2003
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255035-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	19	0	2003
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255039-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	49	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255040-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	46	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255041-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	46	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255042-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	54	0	2002
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255043-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	49	0	2003
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255044-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	39	0	2003
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255045-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	42	0	2003
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 255046-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	53	0	2003
Colemans Lakeview permit 445-G	Well Constructed	Geothermal	105	0	2003
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 58118-F	Well Constructed	Other	44	1.25	1999
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 58119-F	Well Constructed	Other	44	0.37	1999
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 58120-F	Well Constructed	Other	44	1.42	1999
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 58121-F	Well Constructed	Other	44	0.08	1999
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 58123-F	Well Constructed	Other	44	2.18	1999
Turnpike Industrial Park 2 permit 58124-F	Well Constructed	Other	44	0.17	1999
Wilcox permit 56041-F	Well Constructed	Domestic	965	6	2001
Swain permit 233851-	Well Constructed	Domestic	1000	15	1997
Wilcox permit 174388--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	936	10	2000
Anderson Nu Pud permit 52694-F	Well Constructed	Domestic	680	0	2000
Wilcox permit 213950-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	6	6	2002
Wilcox permit 97094-VE	Well Constructed	Domestic	950	0	1997
Wilcox permit 97111-VE	Well Constructed	Domestic	1000	0	1997
Wilcox permit 202565-	Well Constructed	Domestic	930	7	1998
Snell 67-96-e permit 203234-	Well Constructed	Domestic	870	15	1983
Wilcox permit 203235-	Well Constructed	Domestic	905	7	1999
Wilcox permit 203871-	Well Constructed	Domestic	950	15	1997
Shaklee permit 204922-	Well Constructed	Domestic	905	10.1	1998
Zuni Estates permit 96262-VE	Well Constructed	Domestic	980	0	1996
Zuni Estates permit 196453-	Well Constructed	Domestic	935	11	1996
Wilcox permit 193328-	Well Constructed	Domestic	905	0	1996
Shaklee permit 195183-	Well Constructed	Domestic	905	7	1996
Turnpike Industrial Park permit 195044-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	39	0	1995
Turnpike Industrial Park permit 195046-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	14	0	1995
Turnpike Industrial Park permit 195047-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	29	0	1995
Zuni Estates permit 79079--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	980	6.2	1996
Zuni Estates permit 184989-	Well Constructed	Domestic	880	4	1995
Turnpike Industrial Park permit 192023-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	24	0	1994
Turnpike Industrial Park permit 192025-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	32	0	1994
Broomfield Shopping Center permit 22325-MH	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	24	0	1994
Wilcox permit 170157-	Well Constructed	Domestic	980	13.5	1994
Wilcox (parcel A) permit 171366-	Well Constructed	Domestic	250	9	1994
Nikkel Estates permit 173026-	Well Constructed	Domestic	940	11	1994
Colemans Lakeview permit 161818--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	60	1	1992
Colemans Lakeview permit 161816-	Well Constructed	Domestic	0	0	1991
Wilcox permit 154392-	Well Constructed	Domestic	980	10	1991
Wilcox Parcel A permit 150213-	Well Constructed	Domestic	205	5	1988
Wilcox Parcel B permit 128865-	Well Constructed	Domestic	1012	8	1986
Colmans Lakeview permit 142261-	Well Constructed	Commercial	260	15	1986
Wilcox permit 136672-	Well Constructed	Domestic	900	12	1984
Wilcox permit 26572-F	Well Constructed	Domestic	995	20	1983
Zuni Estates permit 129085-	Well Constructed	Domestic	200	4	1983
Zuni Estates permit 128950-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	120	7	1983
Wilcox permit 129026-	Well Constructed	Domestic	880	0	1983
Wilcox permit 129027-	Well Constructed	Domestic	880	0	1983
Wicox Acres / Such Acres permit 132727-	Well Constructed	Domestic	850	0	1984
Wilcox permit 109117--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	961	0	1982
Colemans Lakeview permit 126758-	Well Constructed	Domestic	0	0	1982
Davision permit 122045-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	200	0	1982
Colemans permit 122614-	Well Constructed	Commercial	210	0	1981
Wilcox permit 113123-	Well Constructed	Domestic	200	12	1980
Wilcox permit 104669-	Well Constructed	Domestic	310	0	1979
Wilcox permit 89598--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	915	0	1979
Zuni Estates permit 111986-	Well Constructed	Domestic	230	0	1981
Wilcox permit 106092-	Well Constructed	Domestic	200	15	1980
Wilcox permit 108715-	Well Constructed	Domestic	250	0	1977
Wilcox permit 98543-	Well Constructed	Domestic	230	14	1978
Crystal Lakes permit 98540-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	475	0.41	1978

Counties with a comparable register

Phillips 2,865
Lake 2,756
Bent 2,362
Sedgwick 2,293
Cheyenne 2,133
Montezuma 2,111
Jackson 1,625
Mineral 1,539
Kiowa 1,434
Hinsdale 1,273
Ouray 1,242
Crowley 1,099
Dolores 604

Neighbours by the size of their register, not a ranking: the list slides with the county you are on, so each of the 63 county pages is reachable from the others. All of them.