Dewatering wells in Sedgwick County

4,560 of the 74,710 WWC-5 records in Sedgwick County — 6.1% — are recorded for dewatering.

How this group compares

Sedgwick County holds 73.4% of the 6,212 dewatering records in Kansas, while holding 23.7% of the register overall — so this use is over-represented here.

not a water supply at all — a well drilled to lower the water table, usually for construction or a quarry.

What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Harp Well & Pump Service, INC, named on 3,751 of them (82.3%), ahead of Peterson Mcnett Drilling, INC (128) and Weninger Drilling, LLC (87). The oldest record here was completed in 1978 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 82 feet — a dewatering well drilled by Harp Well & Pump Service, INC in 2004.

Plugging records — for dewatering in Sedgwick County

2,038 of the 4,560 records for dewatering in Sedgwick County carry a plugging report (44.7%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 2,522 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 432 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 Sedgwick County?

2,522 of the 4,560 records in Sedgwick 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 74,710 records in Sedgwick County, and every dewatering record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Sedgwick 35,852
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Sedgwick 15,976
• Domestic — Sedgwick 11,212
• Domestic — Reno 4,381
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Reno 4,045
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Reno 3,758
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Butler 3,102
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Shawnee 2,782
• Oil Field Water Supply — Stafford 2,655
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Saline 2,577
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Saline 2,571