Dewatering wells in Reno County

304 of the 18,579 WWC-5 records in Reno County — 1.6% — are recorded for dewatering.

How this group compares

Reno County holds 4.9% of the 6,212 dewatering records in Kansas, while holding 5.9% of the register overall — so this use is under-represented here.

not a water supply at all — a well drilled to lower the water table, usually for construction or a quarry.

What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC, named on 218 of them (71.7%), ahead of Peterson Irrigation, INC (29) and Miller Drilling (11). The oldest record here was completed in 1980 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 119 feet — a dewatering well drilled by Peterson Mcnett Drilling, INC in 2018.

Plugging records — for dewatering in Reno County

131 of the 304 records for dewatering in Reno County carry a plugging report (43.1%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 173 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 38 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 Reno County?

173 of the 304 records in Reno 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 18,579 records in Reno County, and every dewatering record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Republic 312
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Scott 312
• Domestic, Livestock — Dickinson 309
• Oil Field Water Supply — Barber 308
• Oil Field Water Supply — Clark 307
• Irrigation — Rush 307
• Domestic — Wichita 298
• Domestic, Livestock — Norton 287
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Rice 277
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Marshall 275
• Irrigation — Shawnee 273