Paul H. Backhus Drilling

1,256 WWC-5 records name this contractor — 0.4% of the Kansas register, from 1975 to 2010.

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.

1,256Records

78 ftMedian depth

8Counties

1975–2010Years

Medians, on the records where the driller reported a figure — never a mean, which a handful of deep irrigation wells would carry away
Measurement	Median	90th percentile	Kansas median
Depth	78 ft	110 ft	60 ft — deeper here (1,254 records, 100 %)
Static water level	24 ft	60 ft	24 ft — the same here (1,218 records, 97 %)
Estimated yield	20 gpm	30 gpm	25 gpm — lower here (1,072 records, 85 %)

Where they work

County	Records	Share
Mcpherson	383	30.5%
Marion	327	26.0%
Harvey	315	25.1%
Dickinson	168	13.4%
Morris	41	3.3%
Butler	11	0.9%
Reno	10	0.8%
Saline	1	0.1%

What they drill

Water use	Records	Share
Domestic	592	47.1%
Domestic, Lawn and Garden	569	45.3%
Domestic, Livestock	68	5.4%
Dewatering	8	0.6%
Oil Field Water Supply	4	0.3%
Pond/Swimming Pool/Recreation	3	0.2%
(unstated)/abandoned	3	0.2%
Other	2	0.2%
Irrigation	2	0.2%
Industrial	2	0.2%

Over what years

Decade	Records	Share
2010s	54	4.3%
2000s	655	52.1%
1990s	204	16.2%
1980s	177	14.1%
1970s	166	13.2%

Plugging records — on this contractor's records

9 of the 1,256 records on this contractor's records carry a plugging report (0.7%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 1,247 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 451 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?

1,247 of the 1,256 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

Paul H. Backhus Drilling — « 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-5	Drilled by	Use	Depth (ft)	Yield (gpm)	Year	Plugging report
432271	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	85	20	2010	—
432894	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	92	17.5	2010	—
433044	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	77	20	2010	—
433045	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	93	15	2010	—
433048	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	92	15	2010	—
433049	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	93	18	2010	—
433105	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	50	20	2010	—
433106	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	50	20	2010	—
433107	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	92	20	2010	—
433108	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	50	20	2010	—
433109	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	65	20	2010	—
433110	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	74	20	2010	—
434431	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	50	0	2010	—
434607	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	110	25	2010	—
434608	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	98	25	2010	—
434609	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	60	25	2010	—
434610	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	92	10	2010	—
434611	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	100	25	2010	—
434612	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	140	25	2010	—
434613	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Oil Field Water Supply	66	20	2010	—
434614	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	110	20	2010	—
435157	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	8	2010	—
435158	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	4	2010	—
435219	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	5	2010	—
435344	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	75	20	2010	—
435375	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Livestock	70	20	2010	—
436731	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	70	5.5	2010	—
436752	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	65	20	2010	—
436753	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	93	20	2010	—
436754	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	88	20	2010	—
436755	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	70	20	2010	—
436756	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	75	18	2010	—
436757	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	90	7	2010	—
436758	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	95	7	2010	—
436759	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	100	20	2010	—
436760	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	100	17	2010	—
436761	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	95	6	2010	—
436762	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	18	2010	—
436763	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	20	2010	—
436765	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	95	20	2010	—
436772	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	120	4	2010	—
436773	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	60	18	2010	—
437792	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	0	2010	—
437793	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	20	2010	—
437796	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	4	2010	—
437797	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	20	2010	—
437798	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	17.5	2010	—
437804	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	110	11	2010	—
437805	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	61	5	2010	—
437806	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	56	25	2010	—
437807	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	57	20	2010	—
437809	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	94	25	2010	—
437933	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	90	4	2010	—
438168	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	7.5	2010	—
421989	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	52	8.5	2009	—
421993	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	65	15	2009	—
422078	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	70	20	2009	—
422079	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	57	20	2009	—
424148	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	63	20	2009	—
424150	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	70	20	2009	—
424172	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	74	17.5	2009	—
424199	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	60	25	2009	—
424210	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	78	20	2009	—
425547	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	78	5.5	2009	—
425548	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	76	3	2009	—
425549	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	78	20	2009	—
425551	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	76	20	2009	—
425553	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	78	20	2009	—
425555	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	76	17.5	2009	—
427207	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	54	0	2009	—
427216	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	91	17.5	2009	—
427218	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	17.5	2009	—
427219	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	78	17.5	2009	—
427221	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	78	25	2009	—
427222	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	65	25	2009	—
427224	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	108	17.5	2009	—
427225	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	92	20	2009	—
428029	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	108	25	2009	—
429520	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	77	17.5	2009	—
429521	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	90	20	2009	—
429522	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	76	17.5	2009	—
429523	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	76	20	2009	—
429524	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	70	20	2009	—
429525	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	78	17.5	2009	—
429526	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	75	17.5	2009	—
429536	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	63	20	2009	—
429537	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	90	17.5	2009	—
429539	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	71	10	2009	—
432139	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	30	7.5	2009	—
432277	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	78	15	2009	—
435155	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	88	18	2009	—
435156	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	89	18	2009	—
410632	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	50	20	2008	—
413035	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	75	25	2008	—
413043	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	90	0	2008	—
413044	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	65	20	2008	—
413047	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	7.5	2008	—
413048	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	17.5	2008	—
413049	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	60	20	2008	—
413066	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	65	25	2008	—
413067	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Livestock	56	20	2008	—
413068	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	130	25	2008	—
413070	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	65	20	2008	—
414532	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	110	12.5	2008	—
414533	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	95	4	2008	—
414534	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	20	2008	—
414535	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	20	2008	—
414536	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	20	2008	—
414537	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	20	2008	—
414544	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	65	10	2008	—
414545	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	57	20	2008	—
414553	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	56	30	2008	—
414554	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	112	20	2008	—
416087	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	76	17.5	2008	—
416091	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	65	20	2008	—
416092	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	48	25	2008	—
416093	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	79	17.5	2008	—
416096	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	80	25	2008	—
416139	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	110	20	2008	—
416144	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	65	25	2008	—
416145	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	95	17.5	2008	—
416146	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	17.5	2008	—
416151	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	20	2008	—
416152	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	17.5	2008	—
416153	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	17.5	2008	—
417193	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	70	25	2008	—
417195	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	80	25	2008	—
417239	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	65	4	2008	—
417293	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	25	2008	—
417294	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic	80	25	2008	—
417432	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	50	25	2008	—
417436	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	90	25	2008	—
417440	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	60	25	2008	—
418927	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	65	20	2008	—
418928	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	50	20	2008	—
418931	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	0	10	2008	—
418932	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	15	2008	—
418933	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	80	17.5	2008	—
418935	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Dewatering	78	12.5	2008	—
418936	Paul H. Backhus Drilling	Domestic, Lawn and Garden	79	12.5	2008	—

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