Wells and drilling costs around Divide, Colorado

How deep are wells around Divide?

How much water do wells make near Divide?

How deep are wells around Divide?

Divide wells are commonly drilled into fractured crystalline mountain bedrock. The local median depth is 200 feet, with the middle half between 120 and 360 feet. About 47% of reported wells fall between 100 and 300 feet, while 33% are between 300 and 600 feet. The deepest recorded well reaches 1,200 feet.

For a drilling bid, the middle-half range is more useful than the median alone. A site near 120 feet and one near 360 feet can have very different drilling costs, casing needs, and pump requirements. The 90th-percentile depth is 500 feet, so a bid should explain what happens if drilling passes the expected depth without finding enough water.

What yield can a Divide well produce?

Reported pump yields have a local median of 6.7 gallons per minute, with the middle half from 2.0 to 9.8 gpm. The largest group, 55%, reports between 5 and 15 gpm. Another 31% reports between 1 and 5 gpm, while 9% reports under 1 gpm and 6% reports 15 gpm or more.

That spread matters for a buyer. A well making 2 gpm may serve a normal household when storage is designed correctly, but it gives less margin for heavy use than a 10 gpm well. Pump yield is not the same as a guaranteed long-term supply. Ask for the well construction report, pumping test information, and storage capacity before relying on a neighboring yield.

What does the water table show near Divide?

Only 163 wells in the records report a static water level, so the water-level sample is much smaller than the depth sample. The median depth to water is 85 feet, with the middle half from 56 to 115 feet below the surface.

The decade medians do not establish a simple, continuous trend. Reported levels were 73 feet in the 1970s, 44 feet in the 1980s, 80 feet in the 2010s, and 98 feet in the 2020s. Measurement conditions, location, and well construction can affect comparisons. Treat the recent figure as a reason to check nearby logs and current pumping conditions, not as proof that every Divide well is declining.

Who has drilled wells around Divide?

Permit history shows long-standing development in the area. Records list 14 permits from the 1950s, 64 from the 1960s, 550 from the 1970s, 620 from the 1980s, 716 from the 1990s, 431 from the 2000s, 203 from the 2010s, and 148 from the 2020s. The newest permit year is 2025.

The most active names in these records are Woods Drilling Inc. under Woods, William D., with 525 wells; Mountain Well Improvement LLC under Wiley, David D., with 417; and Woods Drilling Inc. under Woods, William L., with 395. These counts describe recorded permit activity, not a recommendation or a guarantee of current availability.

What does a new well cost near Divide?

Local drilling is modeled at $65 to $100 per foot in fractured granite and gneiss. At the 200-foot median depth, that puts the drilled hole at roughly $13,000 to $20,000. A finished well, including pump, pressure tank, trenching, and electrical work, is modeled at about $19,000 to $32,000.

That is a planning range, not a fixed quote. A deeper hole, difficult access, extra casing or grout, electrical distance, and site conditions can move the final number. When comparing bids, confirm what is included and what happens if the hole is dry or the yield is inadequate. A low per-foot price may not represent the complete water system.

Risks to check before building in Divide

Most permits in this area are for domestic or household use, accounting for 89% of the use mix. Stock wells account for 6%, monitoring for 3%, and irrigation for 1%. The aquifer description is overwhelmingly unnamed or fractured bedrock, with 3,117 wells in that category. There are no recorded Denver Basin aquifer wells in this dataset.

Before closing, check water quality, septic setbacks, and the proposed building footprint. The mapped area includes 6 PFAS sampling or contamination sites, 19 historic mine features, and 11 EPA Superfund or cleanup sites within about 10 miles. Those listings do not automatically mean a parcel is contaminated, but they justify site-specific testing. Low-yield and dry-hole risk also deserve a written drilling plan.

Buying or building on a lot near Divide

Start with the DWR permit and construction records for the parcel and nearby wells. Compare depth, reported yield, static water level, casing, grout, pump, and the aquifer description. Nearby records from Woodland Park, Midland, Florissant, Green Mountain Falls, and Cascade-Chipita Park can provide broader context, but conditions can still change between valleys and ridges.

Confirm the permitted use before assuming the well supports a house, livestock, irrigation, or additional structures. An exempt household-use well is subject to its permit terms and the applicable Colorado rules; over-appropriated basins may require an augmentation plan. Have a driller evaluate access and a septic professional evaluate soils, setbacks, and reserve areas before purchasing a remote lot.

Well permits by decade near Divide

What a new well costs in Divide, CO

How this is built: the median permitted depth here times the per-foot range for this ground, plus the normal system costs. A lot at the 75th-percentile depth (360 ft) would run roughly $29,400–$48,000. See the full Colorado well cost guide.

Environmental sites mapped within about 10 miles

Counts come from EPA, USGS and state datasets layered on the Colorado Well Finder map. A count is not a verdict on any one well; it tells you what to test for.

Buying land near Divide? Know what it costs to build before you buy the dirt.

A listing photo can't tell you whether a lot is a dream or a money pit. Two parcels near Divide can carry the same asking price while one needs an $80,000 driveway and a $45,000 engineered septic the other doesn't. The well numbers on this page are the start of that answer. A Tri-Lakes Site Feasibility Report is the rest of it: a licensed general contractor, excavator and septic installer reads the parcel the way we would if we were about to build on it, and puts the real cost in writing before your money is committed.

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Under contract, comparing parcels, or a realtor with a rural listing whose buyers keep asking "what will it cost to build here?" This is the due-diligence step almost everyone skips, and the one that saves the most.

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