Well permits in Conejos County
5,774 well permits — 1.0% of Colorado’s register. The median well here is 100 feet deep, against 148 feet statewide.
5,774Permits
100 ftMedian depth
736Expired
0Denver Basin aquifer
How deep people drill in Conejos 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.
| Measurement | Median | 90th percentile | Colorado median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depth | 100 ft | 350 ft | 148 ft — shallower here (4,180 permits, 72 %) |
| Yield | 14 gpm | 50 gpm | 10 gpm — higher here (830 permits, 14 %) |
| Static water level | 22 ft | 192 ft | 58 ft — lower here (2,605 permits, 45 %) |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Domestic | 3,242 | 56.1% |
| Household Use Only | 920 | 15.9% |
| Irrigation | 562 | 9.7% |
| Stock | 407 | 7.0% |
| Not stated | 207 | 3.6% |
| Monitoring/sampling | 185 | 3.2% |
| Commercial | 158 | 2.7% |
| Municipal | 45 | 0.8% |
| Other | 32 | 0.6% |
| Industrial | 8 | 0.1% |
| Fire | 6 | 0.1% |
| Augmentation | 1 | 0.0% |
What happened to these permits
3,689 of the 5,774 permits in Conejos County ended with a well the Division was told about — 63.9%. And 736 expired without one: 12.7%.
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 | 3,689 | 63.9% |
| Permit Expired | 736 | 12.7% |
| Well Replaced - Abandonment Required | 422 | 7.3% |
| Permit Issued | 287 | 5.0% |
| Well Abandoned | 217 | 3.8% |
| Permit Canceled | 128 | 2.2% |
| Application Denied | 83 | 1.4% |
| Application Information Requested | 53 | 0.9% |
| 51 | 0.9% | |
| Application Received | 49 | 0.8% |
Which aquifers
| Aquifer | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| All Unnamed Aquifers | 4,491 | 77.8% |
| Confined San Luis Valley | 566 | 9.8% |
| Confined San Luis Valley Aquifer | 274 | 4.7% |
| Unconfined San Luis Vall | 272 | 4.7% |
| Unconfined San Luis Valley Aquifer | 124 | 2.1% |
| Not stated | 22 | 0.4% |
| Alluvial | 14 | 0.2% |
| Conejos | 5 | 0.1% |
| Unconfined San Luis Valley | 3 | 0.1% |
| Quaternary Alluvium | 1 | 0.0% |
When the permits were issued
| Issued in | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 2020s | 506 | 8.8% |
| 2010s | 684 | 11.8% |
| 2000s | 1,009 | 17.5% |
| 1990s | 689 | 11.9% |
| 1980s | 447 | 7.7% |
| 1970s | 841 | 14.6% |
| 1960s | 88 | 1.5% |
| 1950s | 255 | 4.4% |
| 1910s | 1 | 0.0% |
Buying land in Conejos County, or need a well drilled?
5,774 well permits are on the Division’s register in Conejos County, 736 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 Conejos County
| Subdivision, or the permit number | Status | Decreed use | Depth (ft) | Yield (gpm) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 2 Special Improvement District No. 3 Div. of L permit 337844- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 120 | 0 | 2025 |
| Conejos River Trails permit 89823-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 280 | 0 | 2025 |
| Conejos River Trails permit 89906-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 340 | 10 | 2025 |
| La Jara Creek Acres permit 89943-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 180 | 10 | 2025 |
| Platoro permit 339415- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 60 | 0 | 2025 |
| Platoro permit 139982--A | Well Constructed | Commercial | 100 | 7 | 2025 |
| Conejos River Trails permit 90112-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 320 | 15 | 2026 |
| Platoro permit 90107-F | Well Constructed | Commercial | 40 | 0 | 2025 |
| Ponderosa Acres permit 138996--A | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 160 | 10 | 2025 |
| M&l Div. of Land/ C-09-2025 permit 339951- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 100 | 0 | 2025 |
| Kimbleton Estates permit 340613- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 100 | 0 | 2026 |
| Bountiful permit 341003- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 160 | 0 | 2026 |
| Kimbleton Estates permit 341279- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 80 | 0 | 2025 |
| Frenchman Creek permit 90418-F | Well Constructed | Domestic | 140 | 10 | 2026 |
| Bountiful permit 333304- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 160 | 0 | 2024 |
| D&k Wood Division of Land permit 333781- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 180 | 10 | 2024 |
| Margarita J Martinez Division of Land permit 335801- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 0 | 10 | 2024 |
| Margarita J Martinez Division of Land permit 335803- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 140 | 0 | 2025 |
| Rito Hondo Subdivision permit 334164- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 300 | 0 | 2024 |
| Rito Hondo Subdivision permit 334206- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 200 | 15 | 2024 |
| Rocky Mountain Estates permit 334986- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 60 | 0 | 2024 |
| La Jara Creek Acres permit 89365-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 60 | 5 | 2024 |
| Rio Rancho Acres permit 335529- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 80 | 0 | 2025 |
| Tixier & Ramirez permit 88225-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 60 | 15 | 2023 |
| Broyles Division of Land permit 88712-F | Well Constructed | Domestic | 100 | 10 | 2024 |
| Rito Hondo Subdivision permit 331588- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 500 | 7 | 2024 |
| Rito Hondo Subdivision permit 331801- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 500 | 0 | 2024 |
| Bountiful permit 330896- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 140 | 0 | 2024 |
| Sanford Town of permit 325825- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 140 | 15 | 2022 |
| Fox Creek permit 325836- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 300 | 0 | 2022 |
| Platoro permit 326868- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 140 | 0 | 2025 |
| Othelle & Helen Reed (filing: 2) permit 301532--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 180 | 0 | 2023 |
| Platoro permit 87210-F | Well Constructed | Commercial | 274 | 0 | 2008 |
| Frenchman Creek permit 87273-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 200 | 9 | 2023 |
| Bobby L & Leona Claunch Revocable Intrvivos Trust permit 328181- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 80 | 0 | 2023 |
| Cumbres permit 87312-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 205 | 5 | 2022 |
| Conejos River Trails permit 87360-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 320 | 0 | 2023 |
| San Antonio River Ranches permit 328756- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 260 | 10 | 2023 |
| Ponderosa Acres permit 328822- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 60 | 10 | 2023 |
| Joseph and Marta Torres Division of Land permit 261459--A | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 127 | 0 | 2021 |
| Conejos Valley permit 321906- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 29 | 0 | 1971 |
| Platoro permit 85839--A | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 360 | 2 | 2025 |
| Alamosa River Estates permit 322411- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 200 | 10 | 2023 |
| James Sowards Division of Land permit 322840- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 80 | 0 | 2022 |
| Conejos River Trails permit 85777-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 280 | 10 | 2022 |
| Rocky Mountain Estates permit 322896- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 15 | 0 | 1971 |
| Cumbres permit 85797-F | Well Constructed | Commercial | 97 | 12 | 2022 |
| Conejos River Trails permit 36718-F-R | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 260 | 0 | 2022 |
| Conejos River Trails permit 86224-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 80 | 10 | 2022 |
| Bountiful permit 324455- | Well Constructed | Commercial | 120 | 0 | 2022 |
| La Jara Creek Canyon Parcels permit 316845- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 40 | 0 | 2012 |
| Tixier-ramirez permit 84142-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 60 | 15 | 2020 |
| Saddle Mountain Ranches permit 316998- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 140 | 15 | 2020 |
| Elizardo Gonzales permit 317520--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 120 | 10 | 2022 |
| Cumbres permit 84395-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 100 | 15 | 2020 |
| Cumbres permit 84500-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 80 | 7.5 | 2020 |
| Cumbres permit 84539-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 100 | 15 | 2020 |
| Rito Hondo Subdivision permit 318075- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 405 | 0 | 2021 |
| Amended la Jara Creek Canyon Parcels permit 318109- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 320 | 10 | 2021 |
| La Jara Creek Canyon Parcels permit 318767- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 320 | 10 | 2021 |
| Cumbres permit 84786-F | Well Constructed | Domestic | 80 | 15 | 2020 |
| Rio Rancho Acres permit 319225- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 205 | 0 | 2022 |
| Manassa permit 319709- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 35 | 0 | 1959 |
| Arroyo Minor Subdivision permit 319712- | Well Constructed | Commercial | 140 | 48 | 2021 |
| Hawkins Llc Division of Land permit 319714- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 80 | 0 | 2021 |
| Conejos River Trails permit 83995-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 280 | 10 | 2020 |
| Bountiful permit 316463- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 100 | 10 | 2020 |
| Bountiful permit 58266--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 97 | 15 | 2019 |
| Vigil Division of Land permit 313427- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 40 | 15 | 2019 |
| San Antonio River Ranches permit 313542- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 240 | 15 | 2019 |
| Ponderosa Acres permit 128951--A | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 40 | 10 | 2020 |
| Fox Creek Ranch permit 314702- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 140 | 10 | 2019 |
| Finnegan/keys Division of Land permit 315073- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 80 | 10 | 2019 |
| La Jara Creek Acres permit 81819-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 140 | 0 | 2016 |
| Mayfield Revocable Intervivos Trust D O L permit 308694- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 100 | 15 | 2018 |
| Replat of Hc Martinez/ap Gallegos Minor Dol permit 309195- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 80 | 10 | 2019 |
| Reynolds Ranch Division of Land permit 310018- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 85 | 0 | 2019 |
| La Jara Christensen permit 310902- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 200 | 0 | 1967 |
| Ponderosa Acres permit 312190- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 60 | 10 | 2019 |
| Alamosa River Estates permit 304418- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 60 | 10 | 2017 |
| Clark Minor Subdivision permit 304794- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 60 | 15 | 2017 |
| Conejos Acres permit 305637- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 12 | 0 | 2017 |
| Conejos River Trails permit 80812-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 240 | 5 | 2017 |
| Josh Watters Division of Land permit 305485- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 140 | 0 | 2017 |
| Application Parcel Name Missing permit 53364--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 100 | 15 | 2018 |
| Tixier & Ramirez permit 81140-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 500 | 7 | 2018 |
| Application Parcel Name Missing permit 306290- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 280 | 8 | 2017 |
| Smith Minor Subdivision permit 306297- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 100 | 0 | 2018 |
| Fox Creek Ranch permit 306298- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 300 | 0 | 2017 |
| Schmucker Division of Land permit 306337- | Well Constructed | Commercial | 100 | 0 | 2017 |
| Rueben Gingerich Minor Division of Land permit 306339- | Well Constructed | Commercial | 100 | 0 | 2019 |
| Helms Potato Company Minor Subdivision permit 62249--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 140 | 11 | 2017 |
| Rocky Mountain Estates permit 307921- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 100 | 0 | 2018 |
| Cumbres permit 79614-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 43 | 0 | 1996 |
| Cumbres permit 79615-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 42 | 0 | 1996 |
| Sanford permit 300292- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 100 | 0 | 2016 |
| Arroyo Minor Subdivision permit 300809- | Well Constructed | Commercial | 0 | 10 | 2016 |
| Noble E Kreps Bdy Line Adj & Minor permit 301826- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 70 | 0 | 2016 |
| Alamosa River Estates permit 302040- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 80 | 15 | 2017 |
| Vivian Sanchez Division of Land permit 197970--A | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 100 | 15 | 2016 |
| Ranchitos Del Rio Conejos permit 80225-F | Well Constructed | Domestic | 100 | 15 | 2017 |
| Bernie & Norma Romero Division of Land permit 303094- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 120 | 7 | 2016 |
| Ranchitos Del Rio Conejos permit 80303-F | Well Constructed | Domestic | 80 | 10 | 2017 |
| Conejos Valley permit 303504- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 60 | 0 | 2017 |
| Conejos Valley permit 298269- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 60 | 10 | 2017 |
| Platoro permit 299567- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 60 | 15 | 2016 |
| Hochstetler/willis Division of Land permit 296913--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 320 | 10 | 2017 |
| Saddle Mountain Ranches permit 296972- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 100 | 10 | 2015 |
| Rocky Mountain Estates permit 297409--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 60 | 10 | 2017 |
| Ponderosa Acres permit 134066--A | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 40 | 10 | 2015 |
By decreed use in Conejos County
- Domestic in Conejos County — 3,242
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