Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Ottawa County

151 of the 1,592 WWC-5 records in Ottawa County — 9.5% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Ottawa County holds 0.2% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.5% 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 28 of them (18.5%), ahead of Geocore, INC (23) and Boart Longyear Company (13). The oldest record here was completed in 1989 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 135 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Boart Longyear in 2013.

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

23 of the 151 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Ottawa County carry a plugging report (15.2%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 128 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 29 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 Ottawa County?

128 of the 151 records in Ottawa 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 1,592 records in Ottawa County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Coffey 156
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Saline 156
• Irrigation — Saline 156
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Cloud 155
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Ellsworth 155
• Geothermal, Closed Loop, Vertical — Riley 155
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Cheyenne 154
• Domestic, Livestock — Clay 152
• Test hole/well — Reno 152
• Domestic, Livestock — Rooks 150
• Domestic, Livestock — Trego 150