Domestic wells in Lincoln County

1,331 of the 4,107 well permits in Lincoln County — 32.4% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Lincoln County holds 0.5% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 0.7% of the register overall — so it is under-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

833 of the 1,331 permits decreed for domestic in Lincoln County ended with a well the Division was told about — 62.6%. And 132 expired without one: 9.9%.

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 Lincoln County, or need a well drilled?

1,331 well permits are on the Division’s register in Lincoln County, 132 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 4,107 permits in Lincoln County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Gilpin 1,415
• Commercial — Weld 1,414
• Household Use Only — Costilla 1,399
• Irrigation — Pueblo 1,399
• Household Use Only — Rio Grande 1,399
• Irrigation — Phillips 1,345
• Stock — Las Animas 1,309
• Irrigation — Logan 1,288
• Not stated — El Paso 1,210
• Stock — Baca 1,206
• Monitoring/sampling — Eagle 1,202