Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Russell County

847 of the 1,752 WWC-5 records in Russell County — 48.3% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Russell County holds 1.0% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.6% 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 Geocore Services INC, named on 154 of them (18.2%), ahead of Associated Environmental, INC (117) and Geocore, INC (79). The oldest record here was completed in 1983 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 221.5 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Peterson Drlg #797 in 2025.

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

278 of the 847 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Russell County carry a plugging report (32.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 569 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 117 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 Russell County?

569 of the 847 records in Russell 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 1,752 records in Russell County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Franklin 934
• Domestic — Pratt 914
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Geary 900
• Irrigation — Edwards 879
• Domestic — Marion 856
• Domestic — Morris 855
• Oil Field Water Supply — Kiowa 833
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Pratt 833
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Seward 830
• Oil Field Water Supply — Reno 828
• Domestic — Ottawa 808