Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Scott County

312 of the 1,571 WWC-5 records in Scott County — 19.9% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Scott County holds 0.4% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.5% 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 Woofter Pump & Well, INC, named on 63 of them (20.2%), ahead of Milco Environmental Services, INC (50) and Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC (41). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 231 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Woofter Pump & Well, INC in 2012.

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

116 of the 312 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Scott County carry a plugging report (37.2%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 196 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 13 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 Scott County?

196 of the 312 records in Scott 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 1,571 records in Scott County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

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