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Livingston: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in Livingston: 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 842 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA SEMS, EPA UST Finder, US Census (place boundary)

Wells on record

519

86.5 per sq mi

Median well depth

37 ft

half of wells 31–53 ft

Median static water level

21 ft

279 measurements

Median tested yield

38 gpm

206 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in Livingston?

Of 460 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 37 feet. Half were drilled between 31 and 53 feet; one in ten went deeper than 106 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 23 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
73%
50–100 ft
14%
100–200 ft
8%
200–300 ft
3%
300–500 ft
1%
500 ft and deeper
0%

Static water level

21 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 12 and 30 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

38 gpm

median tested yield · half between 20 and 60 gpm

4% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 79% 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 Livingston

62 wells have been completed here since 2016, 7 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed March 7, 2026. Records run back to 1900.

What the wells are for

  • Monitoring229
  • Domestic107
  • Irrigation76
  • Other64
  • Public Water Supply15

How they were drilled

  • Rotary141
  • Sonic116
  • Rotary Dr45
  • Air Rotary41

Drillers filing well logs in Livingston

  • Okeefe Drilling Co20 since 2016 · 2017
  • Hayes Drilling16 since 2016 · 2025
  • Cascade Drilling Lp14 since 2016 · 2020
  • Cascade Drilling7 since 2016 · 2026
  • Van Dyken Drilling Inc1 since 2016 · 2020
  • Hillman Drilling63 all-time · 2010
  • Prosonic Corp43 all-time · 2006
  • Maxim Technologies22 all-time · 2002

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 Livingston

Montana DNRC lists 220 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 183 groundwater and 37 surface water, 206 of them active. The median priority date is 1982, and the oldest claim dates to 1883.

Types of right

  • Ground Water Certificate132
  • Statement Of Claim68
  • Provisional Permit10
  • Exempt Notice7
  • Water Reservation2

Purposes

  • Domestic57
  • Lawn And Garden52
  • Irrigation27
  • Municipal14
  • Commercial13

DNRC basins

  • 43B218
  • 43A2

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 Livingston 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)31 wells · 29% · median 49 ft
  • Alluvium (holocene)23 wells · 21% · median 42 ft
  • Miner Creek Formation (of Livingston Group)16 wells · 15% · median 85 ft
  • Upper Cretaceous Livingston Group14 wells · 13% · median 70 ft
  • Terrace Deposits (quaternary)7 wells · 6% · median 11 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 Livingston

Petroleum releases

35

1 open · 34 resolved

Superfund program sites

1

none on the National Priorities List

Registered tank facilities

67

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 2020. A property report screens the sites within a quarter, half and one mile of a specific parcel and links the agency records.