Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Barton County

2,469 of the 8,264 WWC-5 records in Barton County — 29.9% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Barton County holds 2.9% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 2.6% of the register overall — so this use is over-represented here.

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What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Geocore Services INC, named on 492 of them (19.9%), ahead of Associated Environmental, INC (212) and Larsen and Associates, INC (174). The oldest record here was completed in 1976 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 145 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Clarke Well and Equipment, INC in 2013.

Plugging records — for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Barton County

874 of the 2,469 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Barton County carry a plugging report (35.4%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 1,595 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 483 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?

1,595 of the 2,469 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 monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Reno 3,758
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Butler 3,102
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Shawnee 2,782
• Oil Field Water Supply — Stafford 2,655
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Saline 2,577
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Saline 2,571
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Butler 2,335
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Harvey 1,976
• Domestic — Barton 1,969
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Mcpherson 1,939
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Harvey 1,872