Domestic wells in Pueblo County

5,760 of the 12,597 well permits in Pueblo County — 45.7% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Pueblo County holds 2.4% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 2.1% of the register overall — so it is over-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

3,991 of the 5,760 permits decreed for domestic in Pueblo County ended with a well the Division was told about — 69.3%. And 717 expired without one: 12.4%.

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 Pueblo County, or need a well drilled?

5,760 well permits are on the Division’s register in Pueblo County, 717 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 12,597 permits in Pueblo County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Household Use Only — Teller 7,077
• Domestic — Arapahoe 6,656
• Irrigation — Weld 6,468
• Domestic — Park 6,433
• Household Use Only — Grand 6,408
• Household Use Only — Larimer 6,200
• Domestic — Chaffee 5,602
• Household Use Only — Boulder 5,582
• Monitoring/sampling — El Paso 5,469
• Domestic — Garfield 5,381
• Domestic — Fremont 5,023