Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Sherman County

367 of the 1,533 WWC-5 records in Sherman County — 23.9% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Sherman 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 Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC, named on 82 of them (22.3%), ahead of Woofter Pump & Well, INC (33) and Coranco Great Plains, INC (31). The oldest record here was completed in 1980 and the most recent in 2024, and the deepest well on file reaches 335 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Hydro Resources Mid Continent, INC in 2016.

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

143 of the 367 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Sherman County carry a plugging report (39.0%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 224 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 55 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 Sherman County?

224 of the 367 records in Sherman 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 1,533 records in Sherman County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Montgomery 373
• Domestic, Livestock — Clark 372
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Barber 371
• Domestic, Livestock — Rush 371
• Domestic — Comanche 369
• Domestic, Livestock — Rice 367
• Irrigation — Hodgeman 360
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge — Barton 353
• Domestic, Livestock — Mcpherson 351
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Jefferson 350
• Oil Field Water Supply — Morton 350