Not stated
15,448 of Colorado’s 600,017 well permits are decreed for this — 2.6%.
What this use allows
Not stated means the file records no decreed use.
| Measurement | Median | 90th percentile | Colorado median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depth | 52 ft | 275 ft | 148 ft — shallower here (9,725 permits, 63 %) |
| Yield | 15 gpm | 391 gpm | 10 gpm — higher here (77 permits, 0 %) |
| Static water level | 10 ft | 40.89 ft | 58 ft — lower here (1,588 permits, 10 %) |
Where they are
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Weld | 2,989 | 19.3% |
| Jefferson | 1,872 | 12.1% |
| El Paso | 1,210 | 7.8% |
| Adams | 996 | 6.4% |
| Arapahoe | 915 | 5.9% |
| Denver | 830 | 5.4% |
| Boulder | 773 | 5.0% |
| Larimer | 653 | 4.2% |
| Morgan | 550 | 3.6% |
| Pueblo | 361 | 2.3% |
| Otero | 303 | 2.0% |
| Douglas | 300 | 1.9% |
| Rio Grande | 279 | 1.8% |
| La Plata | 244 | 1.6% |
| Logan | 238 | 1.5% |
| Saguache | 229 | 1.5% |
| Conejos | 207 | 1.3% |
| Cheyenne | 163 | 1.1% |
| Mesa | 145 | 0.9% |
| Baca | 130 | 0.8% |
| Kit Carson | 128 | 0.8% |
| Sedgwick | 125 | 0.8% |
| Chaffee | 121 | 0.8% |
| Montrose | 110 | 0.7% |
| Yuma | 100 | 0.6% |
| Elbert | 77 | 0.5% |
| Summit | 76 | 0.5% |
| Garfield | 72 | 0.5% |
| Grand | 72 | 0.5% |
| Broomfield | 72 | 0.5% |
What happened to these permits
9,220 of the 15,448 permits decreed for not stated ended with a well the Division was told about — 59.7%. And 1,948 expired without one: 12.6%.
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 | 9,220 | 59.7% |
| Permit Expired | 1,948 | 12.6% |
| Well Abandoned | 1,562 | 10.1% |
| Pump Installed in Well Without a Permit | 995 | 6.4% |
| See Associated Receipts | 631 | 4.1% |
| Permit Issued | 612 | 4.0% |
| Application Received | 152 | 1.0% |
| Application Information Requested | 133 | 0.9% |
| Application Withdrawn | 85 | 0.6% |
| Permit Canceled | 29 | 0.2% |
Buying land in Colorado, or need a well drilled?
15,448 well permits are on the Division’s register in Colorado, 1,948 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
- Commercial 22,356
- Other 18,823
- Municipal 9,424
- Industrial 8,665
- Geothermal 3,815