Domestic wells in Saguache County

3,063 of the 8,803 well permits in Saguache County — 34.8% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Saguache County holds 1.3% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 1.5% 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

1,983 of the 3,063 permits decreed for domestic in Saguache County ended with a well the Division was told about — 64.7%. And 471 expired without one: 15.4%.

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 Saguache County, or need a well drilled?

3,063 well permits are on the Division’s register in Saguache County, 471 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 8,803 permits in Saguache County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Conejos 3,242
• Irrigation — Alamosa 3,228
• Monitoring/sampling — Larimer 3,225
• Domestic — Grand 3,209
• Household Use Only — El Paso 3,204
• Household Use Only — Chaffee 3,098
• Household Use Only — Custer 3,056
• Domestic — Custer 3,055
• Monitoring/sampling — Garfield 3,038
• Not stated — Weld 2,989
• Industrial — Las Animas 2,934