Stock wells in Weld County

2,360 of the 43,473 well permits in Weld County — 5.4% — are decreed for stock.

How this group compares

Weld County holds 7.5% of Colorado’s 31,328 stock permits, while holding 7.2% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Stock means watering livestock.

What happened to these permits

1,504 of the 2,360 permits decreed for stock in Weld County ended with a well the Division was told about — 63.7%. And 186 expired without one: 7.9%.

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?

2,360 well permits are on the Division’s register in Weld County, 186 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 stock permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring/sampling — Mesa 2,522
• Monitoring/sampling — Pueblo 2,493
• Irrigation — Kit Carson 2,480
• Irrigation — Saguache 2,476
• Irrigation — Rio Grande 2,407
• Commercial — El Paso 2,402
• Domestic — Summit 2,336
• Domestic — Pitkin 2,295
• Domestic — Mesa 2,287
• Domestic — Las Animas 2,270
• Industrial — La Plata 2,234