# Industrial well permits in Colorado — 8,665

> 8,665 Colorado wells are permitted for industrial. What that allows, where they are, and how deep they go.

## Industrial

**8,665** of Colorado’s 600,017 well permits are decreed for this — 1.4%.

### What this use allows

Industrial means water for an industrial process.

*Medians, on the permits where the Division was told — never a mean, which a few industrial wells would carry away*

| Measurement | Median | 90th percentile | Colorado median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depth | **158 ft** | 2050 ft | 148 ft — deeper here (1,655 permits, 19 %) |
| Yield | **97 gpm** | 708 gpm | 10 gpm — higher here (697 permits, 8 %) |
| Static water level | **40 ft** | 783 ft | 58 ft — lower here (1,300 permits, 15 %) |

### Where they are

| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| [Las Animas](/county/las-animas/industrial.md) | 2,934 | 33.9% |
| [La Plata](/county/la-plata/industrial.md) | 2,234 | 25.8% |
| [Weld](/county/weld.md) | 589 | 6.8% |
| [Douglas](/county/douglas.md) | 323 | 3.7% |
| [Adams](/county/adams.md) | 271 | 3.1% |
| [Moffat](/county/moffat.md) | 170 | 2.0% |
| [Jefferson](/county/jefferson.md) | 143 | 1.7% |
| [Garfield](/county/garfield.md) | 143 | 1.7% |
| [Arapahoe](/county/arapahoe.md) | 138 | 1.6% |
| [Rio Blanco](/county/rio-blanco.md) | 137 | 1.6% |
| [Archuleta](/county/archuleta.md) | 137 | 1.6% |
| [Denver](/county/denver.md) | 101 | 1.2% |
| [El Paso](/county/el-paso.md) | 91 | 1.1% |
| [Pueblo](/county/pueblo.md) | 80 | 0.9% |
| [Logan](/county/logan.md) | 79 | 0.9% |
| [Morgan](/county/morgan.md) | 78 | 0.9% |
| [Fremont](/county/fremont.md) | 72 | 0.8% |
| [Gunnison](/county/gunnison.md) | 67 | 0.8% |
| [Mesa](/county/mesa.md) | 58 | 0.7% |
| [Routt](/county/routt.md) | 52 | 0.6% |
| [Larimer](/county/larimer.md) | 46 | 0.5% |
| [Eagle](/county/eagle.md) | 44 | 0.5% |
| [Grand](/county/grand.md) | 41 | 0.5% |
| [Elbert](/county/elbert.md) | 35 | 0.4% |
| [Otero](/county/otero.md) | 34 | 0.4% |
| [Boulder](/county/boulder.md) | 34 | 0.4% |
| [San Miguel](/county/san-miguel.md) | 34 | 0.4% |
| [Baca](/county/baca.md) | 33 | 0.4% |
| [Rio Grande](/county/rio-grande.md) | 33 | 0.4% |
| [Huerfano](/county/huerfano.md) | 32 | 0.4% |

### What happened to these permits

**6,178** of the 8,665 permits decreed for industrial ended with a
well the Division was told about — 71.3%. And
**590** expired without one: 6.8%.

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](/expired.md).

| Status | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Well Constructed | 6,178 | 71.3% |
| Permit Issued | 604 | 7.0% |
| Permit Expired | 590 | 6.8% |
| Permit Canceled | 291 | 3.4% |
| Well Abandoned | 259 | 3.0% |
| Application Information Requested | 251 | 2.9% |
| Application Denied | 166 | 1.9% |
| Application Withdrawn | 109 | 1.3% |
| Application Received | 67 | 0.8% |
| Final Permit | 46 | 0.5% |

### Buying land in Colorado, or need a well drilled?

8,665 well permits are on the Division’s register in Colorado, 590 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](/privacy.md).

### The other decreed uses

- [Domestic](/use/domestic.md) 243,096
- [Household Use Only](/use/household-use-only.md) 105,372
- [Monitoring/sampling](/use/monitoring-sampling.md) 91,022
- [Irrigation](/use/irrigation.md) 47,689
- [Stock](/use/stock.md) 31,328
- [Commercial](/use/commercial.md) 22,356
- [Other](/use/other.md) 18,823
- [Not stated](/use/not-stated.md) 15,448
- [Municipal](/use/municipal.md) 9,424
- [Geothermal](/use/geothermal.md) 3,815

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Página: https://wells-co.pages.dev/use/industrial/
Fonte: Well Application Permit — Colorado Division of Water Resources
Recolha: 2026-08-21