Household Use Only wells in Fremont County

3,535 of the 10,353 well permits in Fremont County — 34.1% — are decreed for household use only.

How this group compares

Fremont County holds 3.4% of Colorado’s 105,372 household use only permits, while holding 1.7% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Household Use Only means the narrowest domestic permit there is: water inside the house, and nothing else. No lawn, no livestock, no garden. It is the use most often misunderstood by a buyer who assumes a well means water for the land.

What happened to these permits

2,214 of the 3,535 permits decreed for household use only in Fremont County ended with a well the Division was told about — 62.6%. And 623 expired without one: 17.6%.

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 Fremont County, or need a well drilled?

3,535 well permits are on the Division’s register in Fremont County, 623 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 household use only permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Rio Grande 4,314
• Domestic — Logan 4,286
• Domestic — Gunnison 4,179
• Monitoring/sampling — Boulder 3,864
• Domestic — Alamosa 3,719
• Domestic — Morgan 3,592
• Domestic — Yuma 3,411
• Household Use Only — Clear Creek 3,399
• Stock — Yuma 3,302
• Domestic — Conejos 3,242
• Irrigation — Alamosa 3,228