Stock wells in Elbert County

2,187 of the 17,636 well permits in Elbert County — 12.4% — are decreed for stock.

How this group compares

Elbert County holds 7.0% of Colorado’s 31,328 stock permits, while holding 2.9% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Stock means watering livestock.

What happened to these permits

1,430 of the 2,187 permits decreed for stock in Elbert County ended with a well the Division was told about — 65.4%. And 130 expired without one: 5.9%.

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?

2,187 well permits are on the Division’s register in Elbert County, 130 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 stock permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Summit 2,336
• Domestic — Pitkin 2,295
• Domestic — Mesa 2,287
• Domestic — Las Animas 2,270
• Industrial — La Plata 2,234
• Domestic — Moffat 2,208
• Domestic — Eagle 2,110
• Domestic — Washington 2,080
• Domestic — Archuleta 2,053
• Monitoring/sampling — Douglas 2,001
• Domestic — Kit Carson 1,983