Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Gove County

241 of the 1,196 WWC-5 records in Gove County — 20.2% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Gove County holds 0.3% 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 Woofter Pump & Well, INC, named on 50 of them (20.7%), ahead of Milco Environmental Services, INC (29) and Geocore Services INC (26). The oldest record here was completed in 1988 and the most recent in 2022, and the deepest well on file reaches 195 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Kansas Geological Survey in 1988.

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

91 of the 241 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Gove County carry a plugging report (37.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 150 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 38 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 Gove County?

150 of the 241 records in Gove 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 1,196 records in Gove County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Wallace 249
• Domestic, Livestock — Hodgeman 245
• Domestic, Livestock — Lincoln 245
• Irrigation — Cloud 243
• Domestic, Livestock — Sheridan 243
• Domestic, Livestock — Comanche 241
• Domestic, Livestock — Ford 240
• Oil Field Water Supply — Graham 240
• Oil Field Water Supply — Sheridan 240
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Morton 238
• Domestic — Osage 238