Domestic wells in Delta County

1,889 of the 3,935 well permits in Delta County — 48.0% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Delta County holds 0.8% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 0.7% of the register overall — so it is over-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

1,151 of the 1,889 permits decreed for domestic in Delta County ended with a well the Division was told about — 60.9%. And 390 expired without one: 20.6%.

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 Delta County, or need a well drilled?

1,889 well permits are on the Division’s register in Delta County, 390 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 3,935 permits in Delta County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Washington 2,080
• Domestic — Archuleta 2,053
• Monitoring/sampling — Douglas 2,001
• Domestic — Kit Carson 1,983
• Stock — Washington 1,958
• Irrigation — Adams 1,926
• Not stated — Jefferson 1,872
• Municipal — Douglas 1,698
• Domestic — Montrose 1,672
• Stock — Lincoln 1,666
• Other — Denver 1,649