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Batavia: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in Batavia: how deep wells go, where the water table sits, what wells produce, which water rights are on file, and which documented environmental sites are nearby. Area statistics orient you; a property report analyzes the records around one specific parcel.

Updated September 2026 · Based on 306 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA UST Finder, US Census (place boundary)

Wells on record

137

75.9 per sq mi

Median well depth

179 ft

half of wells 134–296 ft

Median static water level

80 ft

128 measurements

Median tested yield

20 gpm

129 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in Batavia?

Of 134 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 179 feet. Half were drilled between 134 and 296 feet; one in ten went deeper than 608 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 97 feet. Depth is set by local geology and position on the landscape, both of which change over short distances, so the spread matters as much as the median.

under 50 ft
6%
50–100 ft
6%
100–200 ft
47%
200–300 ft
16%
300–500 ft
10%
500 ft and deeper
15%

Static water level

80 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 45 and 115 ft

The static level is how far below ground the water stands before pumping, measured by the driller at completion. It affects pump setting and operating cost, and it moves with season and with neighbouring use.

Well yield

20 gpm

median tested yield · half between 10 and 30 gpm

11% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 59% produced 20 or more. These are short completion tests, not sustained-capacity tests; a household typically needs 3 to 5 gpm with storage.

Drilling activity

Recent well drilling in Batavia

26 wells have been completed here since 2016, 3 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed September 17, 2026. Records run back to 1951.

What the wells are for

  • Domestic125
  • Stockwater9
  • Irrigation4
  • Other3
  • Unused2

How they were drilled

  • Rotary89
  • Forward Rotary14
  • Cable8
  • 21 W Bucyrus Erie3

Drillers filing well logs in Batavia

  • Oh Well Drilling And Pump9 since 2016 · 2026
  • Rm Drilling And Well Services5 since 2016 · 2025
  • Glazier Drilling3 since 2016 · 2026
  • Billmayer Drilling1 since 2016 · 2022
  • Chambers Drilling Company1 since 2016 · 2022
  • Allwest Drilling Inc1 since 2016 · 2018
  • Sudan Drilling23 all-time · 2011
  • Mcclarty Drilling9 all-time · 1988

Ranked by well logs filed with GWIC, public record only. Not an endorsement, a referral or a paid listing; we have no business relationship with these companies. Verify licensing with the Montana Board of Water Well Contractors before hiring.

Water rights

Water rights on file in Batavia

Montana DNRC lists 165 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 136 groundwater and 29 surface water, 149 of them active. The median priority date is 1988, and the oldest claim dates to 1872.

Types of right

  • Ground Water Certificate120
  • Statement Of Claim34
  • Provisional Permit7
  • Exempt Notice4

Purposes

  • Domestic57
  • Domestic; Lawn And Garden32
  • Irrigation15
  • Lawn And Garden; Domestic7
  • Lawn And Garden7

DNRC basins

  • 76LJ165

Area totals describe the neighbourhood, not any one parcel. Montana publishes no authoritative link between a parcel and a water right; whether a right attaches to a specific property is a property-level question that our reports answer with the DNRC abstract linked.

Aquifers and geology

What wells in Batavia draw from

Drillers record the aquifer a well is completed in. The units below account for the wells here that carry an aquifer assignment; the median depth beside each is for wells completed in that unit.

  • Alluvium (pleistocene)20 wells · 30% · median 143 ft
  • Belt Supergroup19 wells · 28% · median 143 ft
  • Glacial Drift9 wells · 13% · median 205 ft
  • Middle Belt Carbonate8 wells · 12% · median 486 ft
  • Alluvium (holocene)7 wells · 10% · median 30 ft

Aquifer assignments are the driller's, recorded at completion, and many older logs carry none. Absence of an assignment is not evidence about the geology.

Environmental groundwater screening

Documented environmental sites in Batavia

Petroleum releases

3

1 open · 2 resolved

Superfund program sites

0

none on the National Priorities List

Registered tank facilities

1

underground storage tanks, current and historical

A documented release or site in the area is not evidence that any particular well is affected. Whether a release reaches a well depends on groundwater flow direction, geology, well depth and construction, the extent of the plume and the cleanup performed. The most recent release reported here dates to 2015. A property report screens the sites within a quarter, half and one mile of a specific parcel and links the agency records.