Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Hodgeman County

185 of the 1,417 WWC-5 records in Hodgeman County — 13.1% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Hodgeman County holds 0.2% 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 Defenbaugh Industries, Inc. (t.e.s.t.), named on 34 of them (18.4%), ahead of Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC (28) and Geotechnical Services, INC (23). The oldest record here was completed in 1982 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 320 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Associated Drilling, INC in 2024.

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

46 of the 185 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Hodgeman County carry a plugging report (24.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 139 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 61 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 Hodgeman County?

139 of the 185 records in Hodgeman 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 1,417 records in Hodgeman County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Greenwood 193
• Irrigation — Norton 190
• Heat Pump (Closed Loop/Disposal), Geothermal — Sedgwick 189
• Oil Field Water Supply — Decatur 187
• Domestic, Livestock — Finney 187
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Ottawa 186
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Haskell 182
• Domestic — Greeley 181
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Lincoln 181
• Domestic, Livestock — Sedgwick 181
• Irrigation — Wallace 179