Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Cowley County

1,141 of the 2,223 WWC-5 records in Cowley County — 51.3% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Cowley County holds 1.3% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.7% 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, INC, named on 111 of them (9.7%), ahead of Geocore Services INC (105) and Larsen and Associates, INC (80). The oldest record here was completed in 1979 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 127 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Associated Environmental Industries in 1995.

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

248 of the 1,141 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Cowley County carry a plugging report (21.7%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 893 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 296 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 Cowley County?

893 of the 1,141 records in Cowley 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 2,223 records in Cowley County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

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• Domestic — Douglas 1,258
• Oil Field Water Supply — Edwards 1,241
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Sumner 1,217
• Oil Field Water Supply — Barton 1,212
• Domestic — Thomas 1,172
• Irrigation — Haskell 1,137
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rice 1,128
• Irrigation — Gray 1,127
• Irrigation — Reno 1,121
• Domestic — Sumner 1,109