Midland, Colorado Well Depth, Yield, and Cost Guide

How deep are wells around Midland?

How much water do wells make near Midland?

Midland wells commonly reach fractured mountain rock

Midland’s permitted wells are predominantly in unnamed or fractured-bedrock aquifers, with 601 wells recorded that way. Another 12 wells name Fractured Granite and 3 name Fractured Crystalline. That geology makes depth depend heavily on where fractures occur beneath a particular parcel.

The median completed depth is 380 feet. The middle half runs from 225 to 500 feet, so a driller’s bid based on a standard shallow hole would be risky here. Nearly half of the wells fall between 300 and 600 feet, while the deepest record reaches 1,000 feet. Only 9% are under 100 feet.

What Midland wells produce for household use

Among the 246 wells with reported pump yields, the median is 6.9 gallons per minute. The middle half is 2.0 to 9.6 gallons per minute, which gives a reasonable planning range but not a promise for an untested parcel.

Yield records show 11% under 1 gallon per minute, 30% from 1 to 5, and 54% from 5 to 15. Only 6% report more than 15 gallons per minute. For a buyer, that low-yield group matters: storage tanks and careful water-use planning may be necessary. Confirm the well’s permitted use, production test, pump setting, and recovery before assuming it can support a larger home or additional fixtures.

The Midland water level looks broadly steady

Only 40 wells report static water levels, so this is a limited sample rather than a complete groundwater trend. Within that sample, the median depth to water is 115 feet, with the middle half from 66 to 171 feet below the surface.

The decade comparison shows a median of 115 feet in the 2010s and 118 feet in the 2020s. That small change does not, by itself, establish a declining water table. It does mean pump design and electrical planning should account for water being well below the ground surface. Ask for the original well construction report and recent static and pumping levels, rather than relying only on the regional median.

Permit history shows long-term drilling around Midland

Colorado DWR records contain 623 permitted wells within the study area, with 361 recorded as constructed. Construction and yield information is incomplete: 373 report total depth and 246 report pump yield. The newest permit year is 2025, so this is an active, continuing well area rather than a place represented only by older records.

Permit activity was highest in the 1990s with 158 permits and remained substantial in the 2000s with 144. The most active names in the records are Mountain Well Improvement LLC (Wiley, David D.), Woods Drilling Inc. (Woods, William D.), and Woods Drilling Inc. (Woods, William L.). Their records can help identify local drilling patterns, but a new bid still depends on access, geology, casing, grout, and the planned well location.

Budgeting a new well in Midland’s bedrock

The cost model for Midland’s fractured granite and gneiss uses a drilling rate of $65 to $100 per foot. At the area’s 380-foot median depth, the drilled hole alone works out to about $24,700 to $38,000. That is not the complete project price.

A finished well including the pump, pressure tank, trenching, and electrical is estimated at $30,700 to $50,000 at the median depth. A deeper hole, difficult access, extra casing or grout, and challenging trenching can move the actual bid higher. When comparing bids, verify what is included and ask how the contractor charges if the first target does not produce water. The depth distribution from 225 to 500 feet makes a written depth assumption especially important.

Checks before buying or building on a Midland lot

Water quality and site conditions deserve the same attention as yield. Mapping within about 10 miles shows 10 PFAS sampling or contamination sites, 324 historic mine features, and 12 EPA Superfund or cleanup sites. Those mapped features do not prove a problem on a specific parcel, but they justify a professional water test and a review of nearby land uses, mine workings, and drainage.

Most permits are for domestic or household use, representing 91% of the use mix. Stock use is listed on 12%, while irrigation is listed at 0%. Confirm the permit before planning gardens, livestock, or other uses. Also check septic setbacks, replacement-area requirements, driveway access for a drill rig, building envelopes, and the possibility of a dry or very low-yield hole. A DWR permit review and neighboring well records should be part of the purchase contract process.

Well permits by decade near Midland

What a new well costs in Midland, 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 (500 ft) would run roughly $38,500–$62,000. 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 Midland? 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 Midland 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.

Spend a little to know. Or gamble a lot to guess. Realtors sell the view and inspectors look at houses that already exist. We're the people who'd build it, so we catch what quietly turns a "great deal" into a budget disaster: bad access, buried rock, steep grade, soil that won't pass for a normal septic, water that's a fortune to reach. And if the lot is good, you've already got a builder ready to do the work, driveway to drywall.

• Instant Online Report, $99 — type the address and get a buildability read on the spot: parcel, terrain and slope, soil and septic outlook. Cheap enough to run on every lot you're shopping.
• Desktop Report, $500 — a contractor's from-the-desk feasibility read: Regulation 43 and county code, GIS parcel data, terrain, flood and drainage, soil and septic viability, setbacks and buildable envelope, nearby well depths from our 591,000-well database, the likely driveway route, and a preliminary site-development cost breakdown.
• On-Site Report, $2,000 — everything above, then boots and a drone on the actual ground: house pad and septic zone located, access and winter conditions checked, rock and soil observed in person, a 15 to 20 page written opinion you can hand a lender or seller. Credited toward your project if you build with us.

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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