Domestic wells in Fremont County

5,023 of the 10,353 well permits in Fremont County — 48.5% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Fremont County holds 2.1% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 1.7% 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

3,132 of the 5,023 permits decreed for domestic in Fremont County ended with a well the Division was told about — 62.4%. And 912 expired without one: 18.2%.

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 Fremont County, or need a well drilled?

5,023 well permits are on the Division’s register in Fremont County, 912 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 10,353 permits in Fremont County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Household Use Only — Larimer 6,200
• Domestic — Pueblo 5,760
• Domestic — Chaffee 5,602
• Household Use Only — Boulder 5,582
• Monitoring/sampling — El Paso 5,469
• Domestic — Garfield 5,381
• Monitoring/sampling — Arapahoe 4,924
• Irrigation — Yuma 4,622
• Household Use Only — Summit 4,534
• Domestic — Routt 4,390
• Domestic — Rio Grande 4,314