Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Decatur County

212 of the 1,348 WWC-5 records in Decatur County — 15.7% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Decatur County holds 0.2% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.4% of the register overall — so this use is under-represented here.

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What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC, named on 76 of them (35.8%), ahead of Geotechnical Services, INC (19) and Milco Environmental Services (19). The oldest record here was completed in 1990 and the most recent in 2024, and the deepest well on file reaches 240 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by B & B Drilling in 2015.

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

71 of the 212 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Decatur County carry a plugging report (33.5%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 141 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 43 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 Decatur County?

141 of the 212 records in Decatur 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 1,348 records in Decatur County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Osage 218
• Domestic, Livestock — Gove 215
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Kingman 215
• Domestic — Smith 214
• Domestic, Livestock — Butler 213
• Domestic, Livestock — Phillips 213
• Domestic — Logan 211
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Grant 209
• Domestic, Livestock — Lane 208
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Graham 206
• Domestic, Livestock — Rawlins 206