Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Washington County

425 of the 1,798 WWC-5 records in Washington County — 23.6% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Washington County holds 0.5% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.6% 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 Boart Longyear Company, named on 74 of them (17.4%), ahead of Geocore, INC (63) and Coranco Great Plains, INC (57). The oldest record here was completed in 1987 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 400 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Destal Tyler Water Well Service in 2002.

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

77 of the 425 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Washington County carry a plugging report (18.1%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 348 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 32 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 Washington County?

348 of the 425 records in Washington 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 1,798 records in Washington County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

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• Domestic, Livestock — Kingman 430
• Oil Field Water Supply — Meade 429
• Domestic — Nemaha 428
• Domestic, Livestock — Pawnee 427
• Domestic — Phillips 427
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rush 423
• Domestic — Rooks 422
• Domestic — Gove 410
• Domestic — Trego 409
• Irrigation — Scott 404