Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Gray County

346 of the 3,079 WWC-5 records in Gray County — 11.2% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Gray County holds 0.4% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 1.0% 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 78 of them (22.5%), ahead of Coranco Great Plains, INC (65) and Prairie Land Environmental Remed (43). The oldest record here was completed in 1990 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 659.5 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Layne Western in 2004.

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

117 of the 346 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Gray County carry a plugging report (33.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 229 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 60 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 Gray County?

229 of the 346 records in Gray 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 3,079 records in Gray County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic, Livestock — Mcpherson 351
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Jefferson 350
• Oil Field Water Supply — Morton 350
• (unstated)/abandoned — Sedgwick 350
• Domestic — Johnson 349
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Stevens 349
• Domestic, Livestock — Pratt 345
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Linn 343
• Irrigation — Sheridan 342
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Logan 341
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kiowa 338