Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Hamilton County

228 of the 854 WWC-5 records in Hamilton County — 26.7% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Hamilton County holds 0.3% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.3% 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 Associated Environmental, INC, named on 41 of them (18.0%), ahead of Geotechnical Services, INC (19) and Gsi Engineering, LLC (19). The oldest record here was completed in 1991 and the most recent in 2023, and the deepest well on file reaches 360 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Walter Woofter Pump & Well in 1991.

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

103 of the 228 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Hamilton County carry a plugging report (45.2%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 125 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 30 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 Hamilton County?

125 of the 228 records in Hamilton 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 854 records in Hamilton County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Stanton 236
• Domestic, Livestock — Cheyenne 234
• Domestic, Livestock — Cloud 234
• Irrigation — Republic 234
• Domestic — Atchison 231
• Irrigation — Hamilton 231
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kearny 226
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Mitchell 226
• Domestic — Morton 226
• Domestic, Livestock — Harvey 224
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge — Wyandotte 222