Domestic wells in Summit County

2,336 of the 8,609 well permits in Summit County — 27.1% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Summit County holds 1.0% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 1.4% 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

1,662 of the 2,336 permits decreed for domestic in Summit County ended with a well the Division was told about — 71.1%. And 204 expired without one: 8.7%.

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 Summit County, or need a well drilled?

2,336 well permits are on the Division’s register in Summit County, 204 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 8,609 permits in Summit County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring/sampling — Pueblo 2,493
• Irrigation — Kit Carson 2,480
• Irrigation — Saguache 2,476
• Irrigation — Rio Grande 2,407
• Commercial — El Paso 2,402
• Stock — Weld 2,360
• Domestic — Pitkin 2,295
• Domestic — Mesa 2,287
• Domestic — Las Animas 2,270
• Industrial — La Plata 2,234
• Domestic — Moffat 2,208