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Gardiner: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in Gardiner: 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 371 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA UST Finder, US Census (place boundary)

Wells on record

118

20.4 per sq mi

Median well depth

120 ft

half of wells 80–180 ft

Median static water level

60 ft

98 measurements

Median tested yield

30 gpm

102 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in Gardiner?

Of 106 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 120 feet. Half were drilled between 80 and 180 feet; one in ten went deeper than 262 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 51 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
9%
50–100 ft
25%
100–200 ft
44%
200–300 ft
13%
300–500 ft
6%
500 ft and deeper
2%

Static water level

60 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 36 and 86 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

30 gpm

median tested yield · half between 16 and 60 gpm

5% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 73% 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 Gardiner

11 wells have been completed here since 2016. The newest log on file was completed August 25, 2025. Records run back to 1927.

What the wells are for

  • Domestic86
  • Irrigation15
  • Stockwater9
  • Public Water Supply9
  • Monitoring3

How they were drilled

  • Rotary79
  • Forward Rotary9
  • Cable4
  • Churn3

Drillers filing well logs in Gardiner

  • Hayes Drilling4 since 2016 · 2025
  • Red Tiger Drilling2 since 2016 · 2020
  • Van Dyken Drilling Inc2 since 2016 · 2016
  • Potts Drilling Inc2 since 2016 · 2019
  • Hillman Drilling22 all-time · 2011
  • Aaqua Drilling Inc14 all-time · 1996
  • Rock Creek Drilling Inc12 all-time · 1999
  • Bridger Drilling Inc4 all-time · 2001

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 Gardiner

Montana DNRC lists 231 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 126 groundwater and 104 surface water, 219 of them active. The median priority date is 1971, and the oldest claim dates to 1872.

Types of right

  • Statement Of Claim113
  • Provisional Permit63
  • Ground Water Certificate46
  • Exempt Notice4
  • Compact3

Purposes

  • Irrigation72
  • Domestic42
  • Domestic; Lawn And Garden23
  • Stock19
  • Lawn And Garden11

DNRC basins

  • 43B231

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 Gardiner 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 (quaternary)38 wells · 36% · median 102 ft
  • Glacial Drift20 wells · 19% · median 123 ft
  • Cretaceous Undifferentiated20 wells · 19% · median 199 ft
  • Alluvium (holocene)14 wells · 13% · median 50 ft
  • Pleistocene Undifferentiated5 wells · 5% · median 245 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 Gardiner

Petroleum releases

10

0 open · 10 resolved

Superfund program sites

0

none on the National Priorities List

Registered tank facilities

12

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 2026. A property report screens the sites within a quarter, half and one mile of a specific parcel and links the agency records.