Groundwater Districts and Well Rules in Concho County

A Concho County well starts with a boundary check, not a drill rig. Hickory Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 covers about 1.7 million acres. Its area includes all of Mason County and parts of McCulloch, San Saba, Concho, Menard, and Kimble counties. The Comptroller's Concho County directory also lists Lipan-Kickapoo WD and Hickory Underground Water Conservation District #1 as taxing units.

Those names are more than map labels. TWDB keeps district pages and management-plan links for both Hickory and Lipan-Kickapoo. Hickory's rules page gets down to well permits, exempt wells, driller checks, casing, spacing, and water transport. The rule that matters depends on the tract and the water use.

Pin the land on a district map before you treat an old windmill, a new house well, or a water-hauling plan as simple. A place near Eden, Paint Rock, or the county line can follow a different water-board routine than land a few miles away.