Dewatering wells in Barton County

156 of the 8,264 WWC-5 records in Barton County — 1.9% — are recorded for dewatering.

How this group compares

Barton County holds 2.5% of the 6,212 dewatering records in Kansas, while holding 2.6% of the register overall — so this use is under-represented here.

not a water supply at all — a well drilled to lower the water table, usually for construction or a quarry.

What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC, named on 88 of them (56.4%), ahead of Clarke Well and Equipment, INC (36) and Kelly's Water Well Service, INC (20). The oldest record here was completed in 1979 and the most recent in 2021, and the deepest well on file reaches 60 feet — a dewatering well drilled by Clarke Well and Equipment, INC in 1980.

Plugging records — for dewatering in Barton County

47 of the 156 records for dewatering in Barton County carry a plugging report (30.1%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 109 do not.

That is not a list of abandoned wells, and this site never calls them that. Kansas defines abandonment by use — a well unused for two years — and nothing in this register tracks use. What the absence of a plugging report does mean is that the State has never been told the well was sealed. On the 28 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drilled them

An unplugged well on land in Barton County?

109 of the 156 records in Barton County have no plugging report on file. If a well on your land is no longer used, Kansas requires it to be plugged and the duty falls on the landowner — with cost-share of up to USD 1,000 per well through the Kansas Department of Agriculture. This site reads the register; it does not drill and it does not plug. Tell us where and we pass the request to licensed Kansas well contractors.

We recommend no contractor and we are nobody's agent. We have no arrangement with any firm today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

The records

Part of a bigger picture: all 8,264 records in Barton County, and every dewatering record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Public Water Supply — Sedgwick 162
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Republic 160
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Clark 159
• Irrigation — Morton 158
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Sheridan 158
• Domestic, Livestock — Harper 157
• Irrigation — Cheyenne 156
• Domestic — Coffey 156
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Saline 156
• Irrigation — Saline 156
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Cloud 155