Household Use Only wells in Grand County

6,408 of the 11,297 well permits in Grand County — 56.7% — are decreed for household use only.

How this group compares

Grand County holds 6.1% of Colorado’s 105,372 household use only permits, while holding 1.9% 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

3,859 of the 6,408 permits decreed for household use only in Grand County ended with a well the Division was told about — 60.2%. And 1,629 expired without one: 25.4%.

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 Grand County, or need a well drilled?

6,408 well permits are on the Division’s register in Grand County, 1,629 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 11,297 permits in Grand County, and every household use only permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring/sampling — Jefferson 8,093
• Domestic — Larimer 7,975
• Household Use Only — Teller 7,077
• Domestic — Arapahoe 6,656
• Irrigation — Weld 6,468
• Domestic — Park 6,433
• 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