Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Wabaunsee County

173 of the 1,061 WWC-5 records in Wabaunsee County — 16.3% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Wabaunsee County holds 0.2% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.3% 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 Associated Environmental, INC, named on 52 of them (30.1%), ahead of Larsen and Associates, INC (29) and Usace (22). The oldest record here was completed in 1995 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 84.7 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Usace in 2004.

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

55 of the 173 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Wabaunsee County carry a plugging report (31.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 118 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 0 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 Wabaunsee County?

118 of the 173 records in Wabaunsee 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 1,061 records in Wabaunsee County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• (unstated)/abandoned — Butler 176
• Oil Field Water Supply — Lane 176
• (unstated)/abandoned — Reno 176
• Domestic, Livestock — Ellis 175
• Irrigation — Pottawatomie 174
• Domestic, Livestock — Smith 173
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Wyandotte 173
• Oil Field Water Supply — Comanche 167
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Ford 166
• Domestic, Livestock — Decatur 163
• Oil Field Water Supply — Gray 163