Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Smith County

478 of the 1,005 WWC-5 records in Smith County — 47.6% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Smith County holds 0.6% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.3% 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 Coranco Great Plains, INC, named on 60 of them (12.6%), ahead of Geocore Services INC (57) and Larsen and Associates, INC (42). The oldest record here was completed in 1992 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 160 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Chas. Sargent Irrigation Co., INC in 2007.

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

142 of the 478 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Smith County carry a plugging report (29.7%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 336 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 49 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 Smith County?

336 of the 478 records in Smith 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 1,005 records in Smith County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Jefferson 521
• Domestic — Stevens 520
• Irrigation — Barton 514
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Thomas 511
• Domestic — Haskell 508
• Domestic — Cowley 485
• Domestic — Grant 476
• Irrigation — Seward 471
• Domestic — Clark 469
• Domestic — Cloud 469
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Cherokee 466