Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Morton County

238 of the 1,201 WWC-5 records in Morton County — 19.8% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Morton County holds 0.3% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.4% 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 Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC, named on 34 of them (14.3%), ahead of Davis Environmental Drilling (22) and Cascade Technical Services (17). The oldest record here was completed in 1986 and the most recent in 2021, and the deepest well on file reaches 400 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by U.s. Geological Survey in 1999.

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

75 of the 238 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Morton County carry a plugging report (31.5%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 163 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 12 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 Morton County?

163 of the 238 records in Morton 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 1,201 records in Morton County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

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• Domestic, Livestock — Comanche 241
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Gove 241
• Domestic, Livestock — Ford 240
• Oil Field Water Supply — Graham 240
• Oil Field Water Supply — Sheridan 240
• Domestic — Osage 238
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Trego 238
• Domestic — Hamilton 237
• Domestic — Stanton 236
• Domestic, Livestock — Cheyenne 234