Domestic wells in Mesa County

2,287 of the 6,494 well permits in Mesa County — 35.2% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Mesa County holds 0.9% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 1.1% 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

1,334 of the 2,287 permits decreed for domestic in Mesa County ended with a well the Division was told about — 58.3%. And 506 expired without one: 22.1%.

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 Mesa County, or need a well drilled?

2,287 well permits are on the Division’s register in Mesa County, 506 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 6,494 permits in Mesa County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Irrigation — Saguache 2,476
• Irrigation — Rio Grande 2,407
• Commercial — El Paso 2,402
• Stock — Weld 2,360
• Domestic — Summit 2,336
• Domestic — Pitkin 2,295
• Domestic — Las Animas 2,270
• Industrial — La Plata 2,234
• Domestic — Moffat 2,208
• Stock — Elbert 2,187
• Domestic — Eagle 2,110