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Layne Western

883 WWC-5 records name this contractor — 0.3% of the Kansas register, from 1980 to 2004.

What this page is, and what it is not

A count of the completion records that name this contractor. It is not a rating, a review, or a comment on anyone’s work — nothing in the WWC-5 register measures quality. What it does show is where a contractor works and what depths they report, which is what somebody comparing quotes actually wants to know.

883Records
35 ftMedian depth
34Counties
1980–2004Years
Medians, on the records where the driller reported a figure — never a mean, which a handful of deep irrigation wells would carry away
MeasurementMedian90th percentileKansas median
Depth35 ft100 ft60 ft — shallower here (881 records, 100 %)
Static water level16.85 ft58.5 ft24 ft — lower here (698 records, 79 %)
Estimated yield20 gpm600 gpm25 gpm — lower here (123 records, 14 %)

Where they work

CountyRecordsShare
Sedgwick29433.3%
Butler546.1%
Mcpherson485.4%
Reno475.3%
Geary465.2%
Cowley455.1%
Harvey414.6%
Barton384.3%
Ford354.0%
Ellsworth252.8%
Riley252.8%
Morris232.6%
Finney202.3%
Rice141.6%
Seward141.6%
Ellis131.5%
Sumner131.5%
Russell131.5%
Lyon101.1%
Saline101.1%
Montgomery91.0%
Marion80.9%
Dickinson80.9%
Gray50.6%

What they drill

Water useRecordsShare
Monitoring well/observation/piezometer60268.2%
Environmental Remediation, Recovery738.3%
Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge627.0%
Public Water Supply303.4%
Industrial232.6%
(unstated)/abandoned232.6%
Other171.9%
Domestic141.6%
Environmental Remediation, Injection91.0%
Irrigation91.0%

Over what years

DecadeRecordsShare
2000s18020.4%
1990s69979.2%
1980s40.5%

Plugging records — on this contractor's records

128 of the 883 records on this contractor's records carry a plugging report (14.5%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 755 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 202 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

An unplugged well on land in Kansas?

755 of the 883 records in Kansas 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

Layne Western — « plugging report » reads yes where a WWC-5P was filed and a dash where none was, which is NOT a finding that the well is abandoned. A 0 means the driller reported no figure, not a measurement of zero. The legal description is on the record, never on a page.
WWC-5Drilled byUseDepth (ft)Yield (gpm)YearPlugging report
344773Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer54.302004—
346812Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer14.502004—
346813Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer14.802004—
346814Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer2402004—
346815Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer6502004—
346816Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer3002004—
346817Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer31.502004—
348589Layne WesternPublic Water Supply3055002004—
348608Layne WesternPublic Water Supply3055002004—
348717Layne WesternPublic Water Supply63802004—
351425Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer4202004—
351426Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer33.502004—
351428Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer4802004—
351836Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer34.502004—
351837Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer5402004—
354091Layne WesternPublic Water Supply48802004—
354350Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Recovery50.53002004—
355091Layne WesternPublic Water Supply63.55002004—
356690Layne WesternPublic Water Supply514502004—
336487Layne WesternPublic Water Supply30013002003—
336696Layne WesternDomestic, Lawn and Garden99602003—
341584Layne WesternPublic Water Supply525002003—
343998Layne WesternPublic Water Supply2196002003—
347407Layne WesternIndustrial1781002003—
347409Layne WesternIndustrial1601002003—
347410Layne WesternIndustrial1601002003—
347411Layne WesternIndustrial1651002003—
347413Layne WesternIndustrial1561002003—
347414Layne WesternIndustrial1541002003—
347415Layne WesternIndustrial1591002003—
347416Layne WesternIndustrial1431002003—
347417Layne WesternIndustrial1641002003—
347418Layne WesternIndustrial1741002003—
347419Layne WesternIndustrial1591002003—
347420Layne WesternIndustrial1681002003—
347500Layne WesternPublic Water Supply51.52002003—
348609Layne WesternPublic Water Supply30002003—
327672Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Recovery3802002—
330123Layne WesternTest hole/well2802002—
330144Layne WesternTest hole/well51.702002—
331545Layne WesternIrrigation12012002002—
331988Layne WesternDewatering3802002—
332201Layne WesternDomestic70.95002002—
332202Layne WesternDomestic631002002—
332318Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer2602002—
332319Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer2602002—
334203Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer2302002—
334204Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer20.502002—
334206Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer21.502002—
318183Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer9602001—
318184Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer10302001—
318185Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer106.502001—
318480Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer3502001—
321793Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer132.6702001—
321794Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer13502001—
321799Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer4202001—
321801Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer11502001—
322087Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer24.52.52001—
325575Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Recovery5202001—
325576Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Recovery5402001—
325577Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Recovery5402001—
325578Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Recovery5002001—
325993Layne WesternPublic Water Supply12602001—
310133Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310134Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310135Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310136Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.502000—
310137Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.502000—
310138Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310139Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310140Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310141Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310142Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310143Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310144Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310145Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310146Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310147Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310148Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310149Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310150Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310151Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310152Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310153Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310154Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310155Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310156Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310159Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.522000—
310571Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Recovery3202000—
310878Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer3902000—
310879Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer1502000—
310880Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer1402000—
310881Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer3902000—
310882Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer2102000—
310883Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer1702000—
310884Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer1702000—
310885Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer1402000—
310914Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer17.502000—
310915Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer1402000—
310916Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer1902000—
310917Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer17.702000—
310918Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer1402000—
310919Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer3402000—
310920Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer1402000—
314393Layne WesternTest hole/well50.52002000—
314394Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer5202000—
314395Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer5602000—
314431Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer3502000—
314713Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer60202000—
314714Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer59202000—
314715Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer50202000—
314772Layne WesternIndustrial796002000—
317630Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Recovery4702000—
317924Layne WesternOther29.37502000—
317925Layne WesternOther29.57502000—
317926Layne WesternOther30.73502000—
317927Layne WesternOther29.55502000—
317928Layne WesternOther29.93502000—
317929Layne WesternOther29.85202000—
317930Layne WesternOther30.73502000—
317931Layne WesternOther28.402000—
317932Layne WesternOther27.82502000—
317933Layne WesternOther28.65502000—
317934Layne WesternOther28.7302000—
317935Layne WesternOther29.56502000—
317936Layne WesternOther29.68502000—
318264Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer33.522000—
318266Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer36252000—
318267Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer29.722000—
302721Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer3401999—
302722Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer1001999—
302723Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer2801999—
302725Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer2301999—
302726Layne WesternMonitoring well/observation/piezometer1201999—
305381Layne WesternDewatering3701999—
305804Layne WesternIrrigation62001999—
307927Layne WesternPublic Water Supply1527501999—
308554Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.521999—
308555Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.521999—
308556Layne WesternEnvironmental Remediation, Air Sparge32.521999—

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