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Water Well Report Viewer

TCEQ’s Water Well Report Viewer is an online, map-based locator of over 800,000 historical reports for water wells drilled in Texas.

 

A water well report includes information about the:

  • well location, depth, and construction;
  • water level;
  • local geology;
  • driller and original owner.

 

The TCEQ Water Well Report Viewer ("Viewer") allows users to locate and view copies of water well reports. In this online application, users access the water well files through a grid layer overlain on a map of the state of Texas. When users click on their area of interest, the application will display a list of the water well files within the selected area. Each file contains copies of one or more water well reports.

 

Basic steps for finding a water well report:
  1. Go to the TCEQ Water Well Report Viewer - Best viewed using Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0 or Firefox 2.0/3.0.
  2. In the lower, blue portion of the Viewer, select the County of interest from the pulldown menu, wait for the screen to refresh, and then zoom in on your area of interest until a 5-digit number (e.g.  xx-xx-x) is displayed in the center of the grid.  
  3. Click on the Get WW Report(s) icon (left of the Help icon), and then click anywhere within your grid of interest in order to get a list of water well files in that grid.
  4. Click on a link under the Grid Num heading in order to view a file containing copies of one or more water well reports.

 

Water well reports can also be located using the other search criteria in the lower, blue portion of the Viewer.

  • Grid #;
  • All of the reports in a County;
  • Major City;
  • Street Address;
  • Lat-Long in decimal degrees.

 

The Help file (User Guide) provides detailed information regarding the other search criteria, icons, and layers available in the Viewer.

 

Related Links:

TWDB Water Information Integration and Dissemination System

TDLR Well Report Submission and Retrieval System

 

Questions?  Contact us at  wras@tceq.texas.gov.

 

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