Household Use Only wells in Teller County

7,077 of the 10,843 well permits in Teller County — 65.3% — are decreed for household use only.

How this group compares

Teller County holds 6.7% of Colorado’s 105,372 household use only permits, while holding 1.8% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Household Use Only means the narrowest domestic permit there is: water inside the house, and nothing else. No lawn, no livestock, no garden. It is the use most often misunderstood by a buyer who assumes a well means water for the land.

What happened to these permits

4,628 of the 7,077 permits decreed for household use only in Teller County ended with a well the Division was told about — 65.4%. And 1,459 expired without one: 20.6%.

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?

7,077 well permits are on the Division’s register in Teller County, 1,459 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 household use only permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — La Plata 10,644
• Domestic — Adams 9,364
• Monitoring/sampling — Adams 9,123
• Domestic — Boulder 8,225
• Monitoring/sampling — Jefferson 8,093
• Domestic — Larimer 7,975
• Domestic — Arapahoe 6,656
• Irrigation — Weld 6,468
• Domestic — Park 6,433
• Household Use Only — Grand 6,408
• Household Use Only — Larimer 6,200