Dewatering wells in Wyandotte County

328 of the 6,002 WWC-5 records in Wyandotte County — 5.5% — are recorded for dewatering.

How this group compares

Wyandotte County holds 5.3% of the 6,212 dewatering records in Kansas, while holding 1.9% of the register overall — so this use is over-represented here.

not a water supply at all — a well drilled to lower the water table, usually for construction or a quarry.

What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Fairfax Drainage District, named on 138 of them (42.1%), ahead of Moretrench Amer. Corp. INC (80) and Moretrench American (25). The oldest record here was completed in 1976 and the most recent in 2017, and the deepest well on file reaches 127.9 feet — a dewatering well drilled by Fairfax Drainage District in 2011.

Plugging records — for dewatering in Wyandotte County

210 of the 328 records for dewatering in Wyandotte County carry a plugging report (64.0%), 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 110 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 Wyandotte County?

118 of the 328 records in Wyandotte 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 6,002 records in Wyandotte County, and every dewatering record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

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• Irrigation — Sheridan 342
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Logan 341
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kiowa 338
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ness 332
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Norton 331
• Domestic — Lane 325
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Nemaha 322
• Domestic, Livestock — Kiowa 321
• Geothermal, Closed Loop, Vertical — Johnson 320
• Domestic — Russell 317