Sugar City, Colorado Well Guide

How deep are wells around Sugar City?

How much water do wells make near Sugar City?

Sugar City well depth is usually shallow

The median reported well depth near Sugar City is 28 feet. The middle half runs from 15 to 33 feet, and 90% of reported wells are no deeper than 44 feet. The depth mix tells the same story: 97% are under 100 feet, while 2% fall between 100 and 300 feet. No wells are recorded between 300 and 600 feet, and 1% are 600 feet or deeper.

For a drilling bid, that median is a useful starting point, not a guarantee. Local ground is described as alluvium and plains sedimentary rock, and conditions can change across a parcel. The deepest record is 1,736 feet, showing that an unusual site can depart sharply from the local pattern. Ask for neighboring logs before accepting a fixed depth assumption.

Reported Sugar City yields are strong, but the sample is small

Only 9 wells in the records report a pump yield, so the yield statistics deserve caution. Among those reports, the median is 45.0 gallons per minute, with the middle half from 15.0 to 50.0 gallons per minute. The records show 78% producing at least 15 gallons per minute and 22% between 5 and 15 gallons per minute. None are reported below 5 gallons per minute.

That is encouraging for a buyer, but it does not promise the same result on an unbuilt lot. Yield testing, well construction, storage, and the permitted use all matter. Domestic, stock, and irrigation permits make up different parts of this record, so do not compare an irrigation result directly with household demand without checking the permit.

There is no local water-level trend to read

No well in the supplied records reports a static water level. That means the available permit data cannot show whether the water table near Sugar City is stable, rising, or dropping over time. A shallow median depth does not substitute for a measured static level, especially when planning a new household well or evaluating an existing one.

Ask for the current static water level, pumping level, recovery observations, and any recent production test from the seller or driller. Compare those details with nearby permits in Sugar City and the surrounding plains communities, including Ordway and Crowley. Water-level information should be collected under documented conditions rather than inferred from the well’s total depth.

Permit activity is concentrated in the 2000s

The permit history is uneven. Records show 8 permits from the 1950s, 4 from the 1960s, 12 from the 1970s, 3 from the 1980s, 17 from the 1990s, 71 from the 2000s, 4 from the 2010s, and 2 from the 2020s. The newest permit year is 2024.

The most active driller listed is Authorized (Pe, Pg), associated with 55 records. Eastwood Drilling, listed as Eastwood, Francis, appears on 11 records, and Crandall, H A appears on 7. These names help when tracing local construction patterns, but an older permit may not describe the current condition of a well. Confirm casing, grout, pump equipment, test results, and the actual permitted use through Colorado DWR.

A typical Sugar City well costs more than the drilled hole

The local cost model uses a drilling rate of $35-$55 per foot for alluvium and plains sedimentary rock. At the 28-foot median depth, the drilled hole works out to about $1,000-$1,500. That is not the complete project price.

A finished well with pump, tank, trenching, and electrical is modeled at about $7,000-$13,500. A buyer should have the driller separate drilling, casing and grout, pump equipment, pressure tank, trenching, electrical work, testing, and any difficult access or site work. A shallow hole can still require substantial finishing work, and a deeper-than-typical result can change the bid materially.

Check water quality, low yield, and septic layout before closing

Mapped environmental information deserves review. Within about 10 miles, the records show 4 PFAS sampling or contamination sites and 2 EPA Superfund or cleanup sites. There are 0 historic mine features. Those facts do not prove a problem on a particular parcel, but they are enough reason to test an existing well for ordinary potability concerns and any site-specific contaminants identified by the records.

Low-yield and dry-hole risk cannot be dismissed simply because reported yields are strong; only 9 records include a pump yield. For a new home, confirm the well location, septic replacement area, setbacks, access for drilling equipment, and electrical route before construction. A permitted household well may have use limits, and over-appropriated basins can require an augmentation plan.

Well permits by decade near Sugar City

What a new well costs in Sugar City, 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 (33 ft) would run roughly $7,155–$13,815. 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 Sugar City? 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 Sugar City 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.

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• 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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