Not stated wells in Jefferson County

1,872 of the 42,751 well permits in Jefferson County — 4.4% — are decreed for not stated.

How this group compares

Jefferson County holds 12.1% of Colorado’s 15,448 not stated permits, while holding 7.1% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Not stated means the file records no decreed use.

What happened to these permits

1,531 of the 1,872 permits decreed for not stated in Jefferson County ended with a well the Division was told about — 81.8%. And 73 expired without one: 3.9%.

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 Jefferson County, or need a well drilled?

1,872 well permits are on the Division’s register in Jefferson County, 73 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 42,751 permits in Jefferson County, and every not stated permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Archuleta 2,053
• Monitoring/sampling — Douglas 2,001
• Domestic — Kit Carson 1,983
• Stock — Washington 1,958
• Irrigation — Adams 1,926
• Domestic — Delta 1,889
• Municipal — Douglas 1,698
• Domestic — Montrose 1,672
• Stock — Lincoln 1,666
• Other — Denver 1,649
• Household Use Only — Douglas 1,632