Not stated wells in El Paso County

1,210 of the 46,491 well permits in El Paso County — 2.6% — are decreed for not stated.

How this group compares

El Paso County holds 7.8% of Colorado’s 15,448 not stated permits, while holding 7.7% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Not stated means the file records no decreed use.

What happened to these permits

789 of the 1,210 permits decreed for not stated in El Paso County ended with a well the Division was told about — 65.2%. And 115 expired without one: 9.5%.

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 El Paso County, or need a well drilled?

1,210 well permits are on the Division’s register in El Paso County, 115 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 46,491 permits in El Paso County, and every not stated permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Irrigation — Pueblo 1,399
• Household Use Only — Rio Grande 1,399
• Irrigation — Phillips 1,345
• Domestic — Lincoln 1,331
• Stock — Las Animas 1,309
• Irrigation — Logan 1,288
• Stock — Baca 1,206
• Monitoring/sampling — Eagle 1,202
• Domestic — Rio Blanco 1,195
• Domestic — Otero 1,182
• Monitoring/sampling — Montrose 1,173