Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Pawnee County

382 of the 3,568 WWC-5 records in Pawnee County — 10.7% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Pawnee County holds 0.4% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 1.1% 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 Associated Environmental, INC, named on 35 of them (9.2%), ahead of Geocore, INC (32) and Geocore Services INC (29). The oldest record here was completed in 1977 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 481 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Kgs in 1978.

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

118 of the 382 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Pawnee County carry a plugging report (30.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 264 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 102 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 Pawnee County?

264 of the 382 records in Pawnee 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 3,568 records in Pawnee County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rawlins 395
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Morris 394
• Domestic — Cheyenne 393
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Franklin 392
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Edwards 391
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Dickinson 388
• Oil Field Water Supply — Finney 381
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge — Reno 379
• Domestic — Montgomery 373
• Domestic, Livestock — Clark 372
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Barber 371