Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Shawnee County

2,782 of the 4,748 WWC-5 records in Shawnee County — 58.6% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Shawnee County holds 3.2% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 1.5% 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 Larsen and Associates, INC, named on 365 of them (13.1%), ahead of Associated Environmental, INC (269) and Terracon, INC (174). The oldest record here was completed in 1979 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 210 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Terracon, INC in 1993.

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

909 of the 2,782 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Shawnee County carry a plugging report (32.7%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 1,873 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 415 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 Shawnee County?

1,873 of the 2,782 records in Shawnee 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 4,748 records in Shawnee County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

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