Ground Water Applications and Forms

Mailing Address:

Wyoming State Engineer's Office

122 West 25th Street

Herschler Building 2nd Floor West - Ground Water

Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002

Applications

Application For Permit To Appropriate Ground Water: Form U.W. 5 

Instructions for Completing Form U.W. 5 

Existing Facilities:

Filing an Enlargement of an Existing Water Right

Registering Existing Domestic and Stock Wells 

Registering All Other Existing Wells

Change in Location of Well Without Loss of Priority When Ground Water Rights Have Been Adjudicated or Will Be Adjudicated

Statement of Completion and Description of Well or Spring: Form U.W. 6 

Instructions for Completing Form U.W. 6 

Licensed Water Well Drilling Contractors Required to Submit Form U.W. 6

Memorandum Requiring Necessary Reports From Licensed Water Well Drilling Contractors 

Addendum to Statement of Completion Form

**Required 1) when a pump is replaced in a well, or 2) when a well is relocated or deepened, and the U.W. 6 Form is submitted prior to installation of the pump (i.e., the pump information must then be provided on the Addendum to Statement of Completion Form)

Proof of Appropriation and Beneficial Use of Ground Water: Form U.W. 8 

Proof of Appropriation and Beneficial Use of Ground Water Pump Only: Form U.W. 8-P (Pump Information Only)

**Complete and submit this Form when the U.W. 6 Form was submitted without the pump information

Instructions for Completing Forms U.W. 8 and U.W. 8-P 

Application To Relocate or Deepen an Existing Well:  Form R&D-1 

**Note: When a well is relocated or deepened a new U.W. 6 Form must be submitted.  If a pump has not been installed in the well when the U.W. 6 Form is submitted, pump information must then be provided on an Addendum to Statement of Completion Form

Instructions for Relocating and/or Deepening a Domestic or Stock Well Only 

Application to Deepen an Existing Well: Form U.W. 6-69

**This from may be used for all types of wells, but only when the quantity of water to be developed will not exceed the appropriative right and the use of water will not be increased or otherwise changed.  This form is not to be used if the well is to be relocated.  A Form U.W. 6, Statement of Completion and Description of Well or Spring, must be submitted to the State Engineer's Office within 30 days after completion of the well.

Temporary Water User Agreement - Ground Water Source: Water Use Agreement 

**Request to allow a temporary change of use of a water right to occur for a maximum of two years.

Ground Water Monitoring Well Requirements 

Ground Water Monitoring Wells