Commercial wells in Elbert County

2,769 of the 17,636 well permits in Elbert County — 15.7% — are decreed for commercial.

How this group compares

Elbert County holds 12.4% of Colorado’s 22,356 commercial permits, while holding 2.9% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Commercial means water for a business.

What happened to these permits

173 of the 2,769 permits decreed for commercial in Elbert County ended with a well the Division was told about — 6.2%. And 54 expired without one: 2.0%.

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 Elbert County, or need a well drilled?

2,769 well permits are on the Division’s register in Elbert County, 54 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 17,636 permits in Elbert County, and every commercial permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Custer 3,055
• Monitoring/sampling — Garfield 3,038
• Not stated — Weld 2,989
• Industrial — Las Animas 2,934
• Irrigation — Baca 2,904
• Household Use Only — Gilpin 2,799
• Domestic — Teller 2,730
• Irrigation — Morgan 2,625
• Domestic — Huerfano 2,606
• Household Use Only — La Plata 2,545
• Household Use Only — Gunnison 2,538