Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Riley County

1,299 of the 3,583 WWC-5 records in Riley County — 36.3% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Riley County holds 1.5% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 1.1% 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 Associated Environmental, INC, named on 384 of them (29.6%), ahead of Coranco Great Plains, INC (76) and Env. Priority Srvc (57). The oldest record here was completed in 1977 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 200 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Strader Drilling Co., INC in 1980.

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

423 of the 1,299 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Riley County carry a plugging report (32.6%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 876 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 186 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 Riley County?

876 of the 1,299 records in Riley 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 3,583 records in Riley County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Riley 1,377
• Domestic — Harvey 1,352
• Domestic — Kingman 1,351
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Finney 1,327
• Domestic — Leavenworth 1,322
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Douglas 1,315
• Domestic — Stafford 1,279
• Irrigation — Sedgwick 1,277
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Ellis 1,276
• Domestic — Saline 1,266
• Domestic — Pottawatomie 1,259