Household Use Only wells in Larimer County

6,200 of the 20,919 well permits in Larimer County — 29.6% — are decreed for household use only.

How this group compares

Larimer County holds 5.9% of Colorado’s 105,372 household use only permits, while holding 3.5% 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

4,226 of the 6,200 permits decreed for household use only in Larimer County ended with a well the Division was told about — 68.2%. And 985 expired without one: 15.9%.

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 Larimer County, or need a well drilled?

6,200 well permits are on the Division’s register in Larimer County, 985 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 20,919 permits in Larimer County, and every household use only permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• 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 — Grand 6,408
• Domestic — Pueblo 5,760
• Domestic — Chaffee 5,602
• Household Use Only — Boulder 5,582
• Monitoring/sampling — El Paso 5,469
• Domestic — Garfield 5,381