Domestic wells in Teller County

2,730 of the 10,843 well permits in Teller County — 25.2% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Teller County holds 1.1% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 1.8% 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

1,728 of the 2,730 permits decreed for domestic in Teller County ended with a well the Division was told about — 63.3%. And 503 expired without one: 18.4%.

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 Teller County, or need a well drilled?

2,730 well permits are on the Division’s register in Teller County, 503 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 10,843 permits in Teller County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring/sampling — Garfield 3,038
• Not stated — Weld 2,989
• Industrial — Las Animas 2,934
• Irrigation — Baca 2,904
• Household Use Only — Gilpin 2,799
• Commercial — Elbert 2,769
• Irrigation — Morgan 2,625
• Domestic — Huerfano 2,606
• Household Use Only — La Plata 2,545
• Household Use Only — Gunnison 2,538
• Monitoring/sampling — Mesa 2,522