Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Rice County

1,128 of the 4,156 WWC-5 records in Rice County — 27.1% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Rice County holds 1.3% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 1.3% 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 161 of them (14.3%), ahead of Geocore, INC (150) and Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (98). The oldest record here was completed in 1976 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 650 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC in 1982.

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

317 of the 1,128 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Rice County carry a plugging report (28.1%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 811 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 252 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 Rice County?

811 of the 1,128 records in Rice 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 4,156 records in Rice County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Oil Field Water Supply — Edwards 1,241
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Sumner 1,217
• Oil Field Water Supply — Barton 1,212
• Domestic — Thomas 1,172
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Cowley 1,141
• Irrigation — Haskell 1,137
• Irrigation — Gray 1,127
• Irrigation — Reno 1,121
• Domestic — Sumner 1,109
• Irrigation — Pawnee 1,060
• Domestic — Gray 1,028