Domestic wells in Weld County

14,428 of the 43,473 well permits in Weld County — 33.2% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Weld County holds 5.9% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 7.2% 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

8,663 of the 14,428 permits decreed for domestic in Weld County ended with a well the Division was told about — 60.0%. And 1,561 expired without one: 10.8%.

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?

14,428 well permits are on the Division’s register in Weld County, 1,561 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 domestic permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — El Paso 28,862
• Domestic — Jefferson 15,063
• Household Use Only — Park 14,356
• Household Use Only — Jefferson 13,857
• Domestic — Douglas 13,804
• Monitoring/sampling — Weld 10,978
• Domestic — Elbert 10,857
• Domestic — La Plata 10,644
• Domestic — Adams 9,364
• Monitoring/sampling — Adams 9,123
• Domestic — Boulder 8,225