Commercial
22,356 of Colorado’s 600,017 well permits are decreed for this — 3.7%.
What this use allows
Commercial means water for a business.
| Measurement | Median | 90th percentile | Colorado median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depth | 174 ft | 900 ft | 148 ft — deeper here (10,274 permits, 46 %) |
| Yield | 15 gpm | 110 gpm | 10 gpm — higher here (5,111 permits, 23 %) |
| Static water level | 50 ft | 308 ft | 58 ft — lower here (8,212 permits, 37 %) |
Where they are
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Elbert | 2,769 | 12.4% |
| El Paso | 2,402 | 10.7% |
| Weld | 1,414 | 6.3% |
| La Plata | 1,103 | 4.9% |
| Adams | 1,007 | 4.5% |
| Jefferson | 891 | 4.0% |
| Garfield | 872 | 3.9% |
| Douglas | 822 | 3.7% |
| Arapahoe | 708 | 3.2% |
| Rio Blanco | 659 | 2.9% |
| Chaffee | 533 | 2.4% |
| Rio Grande | 492 | 2.2% |
| Larimer | 452 | 2.0% |
| Grand | 448 | 2.0% |
| Park | 429 | 1.9% |
| Yuma | 400 | 1.8% |
| Kit Carson | 380 | 1.7% |
| Boulder | 361 | 1.6% |
| Gunnison | 356 | 1.6% |
| Archuleta | 323 | 1.4% |
| Alamosa | 298 | 1.3% |
| Logan | 282 | 1.3% |
| Teller | 270 | 1.2% |
| Saguache | 268 | 1.2% |
| Pueblo | 258 | 1.2% |
| Morgan | 245 | 1.1% |
| Routt | 224 | 1.0% |
| Fremont | 223 | 1.0% |
| Summit | 222 | 1.0% |
| Eagle | 218 | 1.0% |
What happened to these permits
9,112 of the 22,356 permits decreed for commercial ended with a well the Division was told about — 40.8%. And 2,629 expired without one: 11.8%.
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.
| Status | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Well Constructed | 9,112 | 40.8% |
| NA | 3,982 | 17.8% |
| Permit Expired | 2,629 | 11.8% |
| Permit Canceled | 1,288 | 5.8% |
| Application Information Requested | 1,202 | 5.4% |
| Application Denied | 1,080 | 4.8% |
| Permit Issued | 958 | 4.3% |
| Well Abandoned | 698 | 3.1% |
| Application Withdrawn | 438 | 2.0% |
| Well Replaced - Abandonment Required | 438 | 2.0% |
Buying land in Colorado, or need a well drilled?
22,356 well permits are on the Division’s register in Colorado, 2,629 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 other decreed uses
- Domestic 243,096
- Household Use Only 105,372
- Monitoring/sampling 91,022
- Irrigation 47,689
- Stock 31,328
- Other 18,823
- Not stated 15,448
- Municipal 9,424
- Industrial 8,665
- Geothermal 3,815