Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Lincoln County

181 of the 1,069 WWC-5 records in Lincoln County — 16.9% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Lincoln County holds 0.2% 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 Geocore Services INC, named on 47 of them (26.0%), ahead of Larsen and Associates, INC (37) and Associated Environmental, INC (19). The oldest record here was completed in 1989 and the most recent in 2022, and the deepest well on file reaches 400 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Natural Gas Pipeline CO in 1989.

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

39 of the 181 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Lincoln County carry a plugging report (21.5%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 142 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 16 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 Lincoln County?

142 of the 181 records in Lincoln 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 1,069 records in Lincoln County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Oil Field Water Supply — Decatur 187
• Domestic, Livestock — Finney 187
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Ottawa 186
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Hodgeman 185
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Haskell 182
• Domestic — Greeley 181
• Domestic, Livestock — Sedgwick 181
• Irrigation — Wallace 179
• (unstated)/abandoned — Butler 176
• Oil Field Water Supply — Lane 176
• (unstated)/abandoned — Reno 176