Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Franklin County

392 of the 1,558 WWC-5 records in Franklin County — 25.2% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Franklin County holds 0.5% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.5% 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 Below Ground Surface, INC, named on 65 of them (16.6%), ahead of Larsen and Associates, INC (58) and Layne-christensen CO (29). The oldest record here was completed in 1983 and the most recent in 2024, and the deepest well on file reaches 77 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Thiele Geotech, INC in 2009.

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

120 of the 392 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Franklin County carry a plugging report (30.6%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 272 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 47 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 Franklin County?

272 of the 392 records in Franklin 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 1,558 records in Franklin County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

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• Irrigation — Sumner 399
• Irrigation — Thomas 399
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rawlins 395
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Morris 394
• Domestic — Cheyenne 393
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Edwards 391
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Dickinson 388
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Pawnee 382
• Oil Field Water Supply — Finney 381
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge — Reno 379