Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Linn County

343 of the 535 WWC-5 records in Linn County — 64.1% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Linn County holds 0.4% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.2% of the register overall — so this use is over-represented here.

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What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Geotechnology, INC, named on 64 of them (18.7%), ahead of Larsen and Associates, INC (42) and Geotechnology (26). The oldest record here was completed in 1981 and the most recent in 2024, and the deepest well on file reaches 97 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by R.s. Glaze Drilling in 1996.

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

130 of the 343 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Linn County carry a plugging report (37.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 213 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 26 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 Linn County?

213 of the 343 records in Linn 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 535 records in Linn County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Oil Field Water Supply — Morton 350
• (unstated)/abandoned — Sedgwick 350
• Domestic — Johnson 349
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Stevens 349
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Gray 346
• Domestic, Livestock — Pratt 345
• Irrigation — Sheridan 342
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Logan 341
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kiowa 338
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ness 332
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Norton 331