Commercial wells in Weld County

1,414 of the 43,473 well permits in Weld County — 3.3% — are decreed for commercial.

How this group compares

Weld County holds 6.3% of Colorado’s 22,356 commercial permits, while holding 7.2% of the register overall — so it is under-represented in this use.

Commercial means water for a business.

What happened to these permits

603 of the 1,414 permits decreed for commercial in Weld County ended with a well the Division was told about — 42.6%. And 250 expired without one: 17.7%.

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 Weld County, or need a well drilled?

1,414 well permits are on the Division’s register in Weld County, 250 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 43,473 permits in Weld County, and every commercial permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Clear Creek 1,443
• Household Use Only — Garfield 1,443
• Stock — Kit Carson 1,441
• Stock — Logan 1,438
• Irrigation — Prowers 1,430
• Domestic — Gilpin 1,415
• Household Use Only — Costilla 1,399
• Irrigation — Pueblo 1,399
• Household Use Only — Rio Grande 1,399
• Irrigation — Phillips 1,345
• Domestic — Lincoln 1,331