Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Ness County

332 of the 1,336 WWC-5 records in Ness County — 24.9% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Ness County holds 0.4% 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 Geocore, INC, named on 53 of them (16.0%), ahead of Grogan Ebberts Drilling (40) and Quad State Services, INC (25). The oldest record here was completed in 1973 and the most recent in 2023, and the deepest well on file reaches 462 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Clarke Well and Equipment, INC in 2003.

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

95 of the 332 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Ness County carry a plugging report (28.6%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 237 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 76 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 Ness County?

237 of the 332 records in Ness 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 1,336 records in Ness County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Gray 346
• Domestic, Livestock — Pratt 345
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Linn 343
• Irrigation — Sheridan 342
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Logan 341
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kiowa 338
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Norton 331
• Dewatering — Wyandotte 328
• Domestic — Lane 325
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Nemaha 322
• Domestic, Livestock — Kiowa 321