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.
| 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 | 1,649 | 8.8% |
| Weld | 1,623 | 8.6% |
| Adams | 1,546 | 8.2% |
| Jefferson | 1,503 | 8.0% |
| El Paso | 1,162 | 6.2% |
| Arapahoe | 969 | 5.1% |
| Boulder | 824 | 4.4% |
| Douglas | 718 | 3.8% |
| Larimer | 669 | 3.6% |
| Garfield | 501 | 2.7% |
| Pueblo | 449 | 2.4% |
| Mesa | 375 | 2.0% |
| Alamosa | 369 | 2.0% |
| La Plata | 308 | 1.6% |
| Saguache | 297 | 1.6% |
| Rio Blanco | 295 | 1.6% |
| Routt | 261 | 1.4% |
| Gunnison | 225 | 1.2% |
| Park | 195 | 1.0% |
| Montezuma | 181 | 1.0% |
| Pitkin | 177 | 0.9% |
| Logan | 175 | 0.9% |
| Moffat | 175 | 0.9% |
| Summit | 162 | 0.9% |
| Morgan | 154 | 0.8% |
| Grand | 137 | 0.7% |
| Prowers | 136 | 0.7% |
| Montrose | 135 | 0.7% |
| Delta | 135 | 0.7% |
| Eagle | 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.
| 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| Application Withdrawn | 344 | 1.8% |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.
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
- Not stated 15,448
- Municipal 9,424
- Industrial 8,665
- Geothermal 3,815