Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Ellsworth County

565 of the 2,028 WWC-5 records in Ellsworth County — 27.9% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Ellsworth County holds 0.7% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.6% 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 Below Ground Surface, INC, named on 70 of them (12.4%), ahead of Geocore, INC (64) and Funkee Drilling Service (59). The oldest record here was completed in 1981 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 763 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Layne Christensen CO in 2013.

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

180 of the 565 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Ellsworth County carry a plugging report (31.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 385 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 128 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 Ellsworth County?

385 of the 565 records in Ellsworth 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 2,028 records in Ellsworth County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Decatur 615
• Irrigation — Pratt 613
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kingman 603
• Domestic — Seward 602
• Domestic — Kearny 596
• Domestic — Rawlins 587
• Irrigation — Ford 561
• Environmental Remediation, Injection — Sedgwick 547
• Domestic — Kiowa 546
• Irrigation — Meade 545
• Domestic, Livestock — Marion 543