Industrial wells in Las Animas County

2,934 of the 8,050 well permits in Las Animas County — 36.4% — are decreed for industrial.

How this group compares

Las Animas County holds 33.9% of Colorado’s 8,665 industrial permits, while holding 1.3% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Industrial means water for an industrial process.

What happened to these permits

2,643 of the 2,934 permits decreed for industrial in Las Animas County ended with a well the Division was told about — 90.1%. And 5 expired without one: 0.2%.

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 Las Animas County, or need a well drilled?

2,934 well permits are on the Division’s register in Las Animas County, 5 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 8,050 permits in Las Animas County, and every industrial permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Household Use Only — Chaffee 3,098
• Domestic — Saguache 3,063
• Household Use Only — Custer 3,056
• Domestic — Custer 3,055
• Monitoring/sampling — Garfield 3,038
• Not stated — Weld 2,989
• Irrigation — Baca 2,904
• Household Use Only — Gilpin 2,799
• Commercial — Elbert 2,769
• Domestic — Teller 2,730
• Irrigation — Morgan 2,625