Domestic wells in Huerfano County

2,606 of the 4,190 well permits in Huerfano County — 62.2% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Huerfano County holds 1.1% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 0.7% 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

1,497 of the 2,606 permits decreed for domestic in Huerfano County ended with a well the Division was told about — 57.4%. And 634 expired without one: 24.3%.

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 Huerfano County, or need a well drilled?

2,606 well permits are on the Division’s register in Huerfano County, 634 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 4,190 permits in Huerfano County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Industrial — Las Animas 2,934
• Irrigation — Baca 2,904
• Household Use Only — Gilpin 2,799
• Commercial — Elbert 2,769
• Domestic — Teller 2,730
• Irrigation — Morgan 2,625
• Household Use Only — La Plata 2,545
• Household Use Only — Gunnison 2,538
• Monitoring/sampling — Mesa 2,522
• Monitoring/sampling — Pueblo 2,493
• Irrigation — Kit Carson 2,480