Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Seward County

830 of the 2,995 WWC-5 records in Seward County — 27.7% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Seward County holds 1.0% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 1.0% 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 Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC, named on 149 of them (18.0%), ahead of Geocore, INC (78) and Woofter Pump and Well, INC (70). The oldest record here was completed in 1984 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 690 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Richard Henkle Drilling & Supply Co. INC in 2003.

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

324 of the 830 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Seward County carry a plugging report (39.0%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 506 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 37 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 Seward County?

506 of the 830 records in Seward 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 2,995 records in Seward County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Irrigation — Edwards 879
• Domestic — Marion 856
• Domestic — Morris 855
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Russell 847
• Oil Field Water Supply — Kiowa 833
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Pratt 833
• Oil Field Water Supply — Reno 828
• Domestic — Ottawa 808
• Domestic — Clay 797
• Domestic — Norton 793
• Oil Field Water Supply — Rice 781