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Department 400 - Department of Natural ResourcesDivision 410 - Ground Water Commission
Rule 2 CCR 410-1 - RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF DESIGNATED GROUND WATER
Rule 2 CCR 410-1-6 - REPLACEMENT WELL PERMITS

2 Colo. Code Regs. § 410-1-6

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Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 1, January 10, 2025
Rule 2 CCR 410-1-6 - REPLACEMENT WELL PERMITS
6.1 Applicability - For consideration as a replacement well under section 37 90 111(1)(c), C.R.S., the limitations in this Rule 6 shall apply. All replacement applications not within the limits of this rule shall be reviewed under Rule 7 as a Change of Water Right.
6.2 A replacement well shall be constructed within the following distance of the originally permitted well site except where a Management District's Rules and Regulations specify a lesser distance, in which case, the lesser distance shall apply:

Aquifer

Allowable Distance from Originally Permitted Well Site

Bedrock Aquifers

200 feet

All other aquifers

300 feet

6.3 A replacement well in a Bedrock Aquifer subjected to the 200 feet distance limitation of Rule 6.2 shall also satisfy the well to well minimum spacing requirements of Rule 5.3.7.1 and Rule 5.4.11, but a replacement well in any other aquifer subjected to the 300 feet distance limitation of Rule 6.2 shall not be required to satisfy the well to well minimum spacing requirement of Rule 5.2.1.
6.4 The originally permitted well site shall be the site as specified on the original well permit or a relocated site as approved by the Commission pursuant to section 37 90 111(1)(g), C.R.S. Where sectional coordinate distances are not available from any document in the permit file, the original site may be established by field location of the original well.
6.5 A replacement well permit will be limited so as to produce water from the same aquifer or aquifers as the original well.
6.6 A permit for the replacement of a well which was previously completed in one aquifer, but did not fully penetrate the water bearing materials in that aquifer, shall allow full penetration of that aquifer, except that for a Denver Basin Aquifer well, it shall not result in increasing its Cylinder(s) of Appropriation.
6.7 A replacement well permit shall be limited to the same terms and conditions as the original well permit.

2 CCR 410-1-6

42 CR 24, December 25, 2019, effective 1/14/2020
45 CR 17, September 10, 2022, effective 9/30/2022