Burland neighbor wasting water, how to report?

mtntrekker wrote: Neighbors have a household use only well. They have two outdoor faucets which they shouldn't have and every day they are watering their deck, patio, grass and filling a wading pool. Now they bought a large above ground pool. Their waste is atrocious and all the wells around them suffer.

Who do you contact to report this waste especially when they aren't supposed to be doing any of it in the first place?

How do you know what kind of well permit your neighbors have?

They may have a domestic / livestock well if it was drilled Before May 8, 1972

the links earlier have a look up site where you can put in an address and it tells you kind of well is permitted.

Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: the links earlier have a look up site where you can put in an address and it tells you kind of well is permitted.

Looks like I learned something today. Thanks :thumbsup:

I learned something, too! I didn't even know what kind of well we had, nor ever thought about it. Pulled out our closing documents, found the well permit ownership change document, got the permit number and typed it in that site and it pulled it up! I printed it out and put it with other house papers.

I knew I had a domestic well my parents had it drilled in 1969

Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: (sorry I was posting at same time that nobody that matters was... GMTA!)

here ya go....you can look up your well use permit or your neighbor's

http://www.dwr.state.co.us/WellPermitSe ... fault.aspx

I dug out our closing documents to our well use permit number and typed it in. We have a domestic use permit

here is main site
http://water.state.co.us/Home/Pages/default.aspx

Well Permitting Page
http://water.state.co.us/groundwater/we ... fault.aspx

The state site doesn't seem to give all the necessary info, at least not in my case.

It says my well is for household use only. But we are allowed horses (not that I have any) and there is a local water group where I can pay a nominal amount ($10 a yr in my case) to use water outside (not only for horses, other uses as well). No mention of that so at the site so far as I can see.

maybe a really nosy neighbor will stick his big damn nose in your business and
find out for you
just a thought...

Welcome to the 21st century

don't report them - they'll dry out their well before they dry out yours.......

Really - in my own opinion - it's not your issue.

They moved to the country to get away from nosey neighbors (that would be you).

I also think outdoor faucets are fine --- especially in a fire-prone area - but then again - I'm not the Denver Water Board.

To clarify a neighbor who has a good view told me about it and they are going to report it. I am helping them find the correct information.

I do feel for any of the adjoining neighbors who do have very bad wells and this neighbor isn't helping the situation out any. Sooo if they are doing something that is illegal and hurts others, then the other neighbors should just sit on it and do nothing and watch the values on their homes tank?