Domestic wells in Routt County

4,390 of the 7,264 well permits in Routt County — 60.4% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Routt County holds 1.8% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 1.2% 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

2,661 of the 4,390 permits decreed for domestic in Routt County ended with a well the Division was told about — 60.6%. And 877 expired without one: 20.0%.

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 Routt County, or need a well drilled?

4,390 well permits are on the Division’s register in Routt County, 877 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 7,264 permits in Routt County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring/sampling — El Paso 5,469
• Domestic — Garfield 5,381
• Domestic — Fremont 5,023
• Monitoring/sampling — Arapahoe 4,924
• Irrigation — Yuma 4,622
• Household Use Only — Summit 4,534
• Domestic — Rio Grande 4,314
• Domestic — Logan 4,286
• Domestic — Gunnison 4,179
• Monitoring/sampling — Boulder 3,864
• Domestic — Alamosa 3,719