Irrigation wells in Saline County

156 of the 7,612 WWC-5 records in Saline County — 2.0% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Saline County holds 0.6% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 2.4% of the register overall — so this use is under-represented here.

watering crops, at the volume an appropriation allows. These are the deep, high-yield wells, and they are the ones most often tied to a DWR water right.

What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Peterson Irrigation, INC, named on 56 of them (35.9%), ahead of Michael Peterson Irrigation, INC (21) and Paul Pestinger Pump & Water Well Drlg., INC (14). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 147 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Paul Pestinger Pump & Water Well Drlg., INC in 2003.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Saline County

33 of the 156 records for irrigation in Saline County carry a plugging report (21.2%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 123 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 45 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 Saline County?

123 of the 156 records in Saline 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 7,612 records in Saline County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Sheridan 158
• Domestic, Livestock — Harper 157
• Dewatering — Barton 156
• Irrigation — Cheyenne 156
• Domestic — Coffey 156
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Saline 156
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Cloud 155
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Ellsworth 155
• Geothermal, Closed Loop, Vertical — Riley 155
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Cheyenne 154
• Domestic, Livestock — Clay 152