Stock
31,328 of Colorado’s 600,017 well permits are decreed for this — 5.2%.
What this use allows
Stock means watering livestock.
| Measurement | Median | 90th percentile | Colorado median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depth | 130 ft | 360 ft | 148 ft — shallower here (22,403 permits, 72 %) |
| Yield | 10 gpm | 20 gpm | 10 gpm — the same here (5,132 permits, 16 %) |
| Static water level | 66 ft | 202 ft | 58 ft — higher here (17,199 permits, 55 %) |
Where they are
| County | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Yuma | 3,302 | 10.5% |
| Weld | 2,360 | 7.5% |
| Elbert | 2,187 | 7.0% |
| Washington | 1,958 | 6.2% |
| Lincoln | 1,666 | 5.3% |
| El Paso | 1,562 | 5.0% |
| Kit Carson | 1,441 | 4.6% |
| Logan | 1,438 | 4.6% |
| Las Animas | 1,309 | 4.2% |
| Baca | 1,206 | 3.8% |
| Morgan | 1,075 | 3.4% |
| Cheyenne | 711 | 2.3% |
| Moffat | 685 | 2.2% |
| Saguache | 656 | 2.1% |
| Prowers | 631 | 2.0% |
| Arapahoe | 612 | 2.0% |
| Pueblo | 594 | 1.9% |
| Adams | 569 | 1.8% |
| Huerfano | 543 | 1.7% |
| Kiowa | 527 | 1.7% |
| Bent | 453 | 1.4% |
| Douglas | 447 | 1.4% |
| Conejos | 407 | 1.3% |
| Park | 366 | 1.2% |
| Alamosa | 362 | 1.2% |
| Larimer | 352 | 1.1% |
| Sedgwick | 319 | 1.0% |
| Otero | 311 | 1.0% |
| Crowley | 297 | 0.9% |
| Rio Grande | 269 | 0.9% |
What happened to these permits
20,902 of the 31,328 permits decreed for stock ended with a well the Division was told about — 66.7%. And 2,828 expired without one: 9.0%.
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 | 20,902 | 66.7% |
| Permit Expired | 2,828 | 9.0% |
| Well Abandoned | 1,652 | 5.3% |
| Permit Issued | 1,461 | 4.7% |
| Permit Canceled | 1,207 | 3.9% |
| Well Replaced - Abandonment Required | 1,103 | 3.5% |
| 791 | 2.5% | |
| Application Information Requested | 478 | 1.5% |
| Application Denied | 253 | 0.8% |
| Application Received | 230 | 0.7% |
Buying land in Colorado, or need a well drilled?
31,328 well permits are on the Division’s register in Colorado, 2,828 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
- Commercial 22,356
- Other 18,823
- Not stated 15,448
- Municipal 9,424
- Industrial 8,665
- Geothermal 3,815