Dewatering wells in Harvey County

204 of the 7,116 WWC-5 records in Harvey County — 2.9% — are recorded for dewatering.

How this group compares

Harvey County holds 3.3% of the 6,212 dewatering records in Kansas, while holding 2.3% of the register overall — so this use is over-represented here.

not a water supply at all — a well drilled to lower the water table, usually for construction or a quarry.

What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Harp Well & Pump Service, INC, named on 133 of them (65.2%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (43) and Chase Drilling (10). The oldest record here was completed in 1985 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 78 feet — a dewatering well drilled by Paul H. Backhus Drilling in 2008.

Plugging records — for dewatering in Harvey County

63 of the 204 records for dewatering in Harvey County carry a plugging report (30.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 141 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 14 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 Harvey County?

141 of the 204 records in Harvey 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 7,116 records in Harvey County, and every dewatering record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Logan 211
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Grant 209
• Domestic, Livestock — Lane 208
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Graham 206
• Domestic, Livestock — Rawlins 206
• Domestic, Livestock — Ottawa 205
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Barton 203
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Doniphan 201
• Domestic, Livestock — Meade 200
• Domestic — Osborne 199
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Comanche 198