# Other well permits in Colorado — 18,823

> 18,823 Colorado wells are permitted for other. What that allows, where they are, and how deep they go.

## Other

**18,823** of Colorado’s 600,017 well permits are decreed for this — 3.1%.

### What this use allows

Other means a use the Division records under this heading.

*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 | **50 ft** | 362 ft | 148 ft — shallower here (4,490 permits, 24 %) |
| Yield | **17 gpm** | 537 gpm | 10 gpm — higher here (1,445 permits, 8 %) |
| Static water level | **21 ft** | 180 ft | 58 ft — lower here (2,328 permits, 12 %) |

### Where they are

| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| [Denver](/county/denver/other.md) | 1,649 | 8.8% |
| [Weld](/county/weld/other.md) | 1,623 | 8.6% |
| [Adams](/county/adams/other.md) | 1,546 | 8.2% |
| [Jefferson](/county/jefferson/other.md) | 1,503 | 8.0% |
| [El Paso](/county/el-paso/other.md) | 1,162 | 6.2% |
| [Arapahoe](/county/arapahoe.md) | 969 | 5.1% |
| [Boulder](/county/boulder.md) | 824 | 4.4% |
| [Douglas](/county/douglas.md) | 718 | 3.8% |
| [Larimer](/county/larimer.md) | 669 | 3.6% |
| [Garfield](/county/garfield.md) | 501 | 2.7% |
| [Pueblo](/county/pueblo.md) | 449 | 2.4% |
| [Mesa](/county/mesa.md) | 375 | 2.0% |
| [Alamosa](/county/alamosa.md) | 369 | 2.0% |
| [La Plata](/county/la-plata.md) | 308 | 1.6% |
| [Saguache](/county/saguache.md) | 297 | 1.6% |
| [Rio Blanco](/county/rio-blanco.md) | 295 | 1.6% |
| [Routt](/county/routt.md) | 261 | 1.4% |
| [Gunnison](/county/gunnison.md) | 225 | 1.2% |
| [Park](/county/park.md) | 195 | 1.0% |
| [Montezuma](/county/montezuma.md) | 181 | 1.0% |
| [Pitkin](/county/pitkin.md) | 177 | 0.9% |
| [Logan](/county/logan.md) | 175 | 0.9% |
| [Moffat](/county/moffat.md) | 175 | 0.9% |
| [Summit](/county/summit.md) | 162 | 0.9% |
| [Morgan](/county/morgan.md) | 154 | 0.8% |
| [Grand](/county/grand.md) | 137 | 0.7% |
| [Prowers](/county/prowers.md) | 136 | 0.7% |
| [Montrose](/county/montrose.md) | 135 | 0.7% |
| [Delta](/county/delta.md) | 135 | 0.7% |
| [Eagle](/county/eagle.md) | 125 | 0.7% |

### What happened to these permits

**3,378** of the 18,823 permits decreed for other ended with a
well the Division was told about — 17.9%. And
**1,524** expired without one: 8.1%.

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 Abandoned | 6,599 | 35.1% |
| Well Constructed | 3,378 | 17.9% |
| Application Denied | 2,395 | 12.7% |
| Application Information Requested | 2,374 | 12.6% |
| Permit Expired | 1,524 | 8.1% |
| Permit Canceled | 786 | 4.2% |
| Permit Issued | 477 | 2.5% |
| Application Withdrawn | 344 | 1.8% |
| Application Received | 332 | 1.8% |
| NA | 230 | 1.2% |

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

18,823 well permits are on the Division’s register in Colorado, 1,524 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
- [Not stated](/use/not-stated.md) 15,448
- [Municipal](/use/municipal.md) 9,424
- [Industrial](/use/industrial.md) 8,665
- [Geothermal](/use/geothermal.md) 3,815

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