Domestic wells in Park County

6,433 of the 22,930 well permits in Park County — 28.1% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Park County holds 2.6% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 3.8% 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

4,089 of the 6,433 permits decreed for domestic in Park County ended with a well the Division was told about — 63.6%. And 1,168 expired without one: 18.2%.

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 Park County, or need a well drilled?

6,433 well permits are on the Division’s register in Park County, 1,168 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 22,930 permits in Park County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Boulder 8,225
• Monitoring/sampling — Jefferson 8,093
• Domestic — Larimer 7,975
• Household Use Only — Teller 7,077
• Domestic — Arapahoe 6,656
• Irrigation — Weld 6,468
• Household Use Only — Grand 6,408
• Household Use Only — Larimer 6,200
• Domestic — Pueblo 5,760
• Domestic — Chaffee 5,602
• Household Use Only — Boulder 5,582