Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Thomas County

511 of the 2,827 WWC-5 records in Thomas County — 18.1% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Thomas County holds 0.6% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.9% 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 211 of them (41.3%), ahead of Woofter Pump & Well, INC (42) and Woofter Pump and Well, INC (42). The oldest record here was completed in 1987 and the most recent in 2021, and the deepest well on file reaches 286 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Clarke Well and Equipment, INC in 2007.

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

193 of the 511 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Thomas County carry a plugging report (37.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 318 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 43 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 Thomas County?

318 of the 511 records in Thomas 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 2,827 records in Thomas County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rooks 528
• Domestic — Lincoln 526
• Domestic, Livestock — Edwards 521
• Domestic — Jefferson 521
• Domestic — Stevens 520
• Irrigation — Barton 514
• Domestic — Haskell 508
• Domestic — Cowley 485
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Smith 478
• Domestic — Grant 476
• Irrigation — Seward 471