Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Osborne County

453 of the 1,047 WWC-5 records in Osborne County — 43.3% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Osborne County holds 0.5% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.3% 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 Geocore Services INC, named on 80 of them (17.7%), ahead of Associated Environmental, INC (56) and Geocore, INC (40). The oldest record here was completed in 1987 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 78 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Pratt Well Service in 2013.

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

136 of the 453 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Osborne County carry a plugging report (30.0%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 317 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 39 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 Osborne County?

317 of the 453 records in Osborne 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 1,047 records in Osborne County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Clark 469
• Domestic — Cloud 469
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Cherokee 466
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Atchison 457
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Brown 457
• Domestic — Hodgeman 456
• Domestic — Harper 447
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Marion 446
• Domestic — Lyon 445
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Harper 444
• Domestic — Ness 444