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West Glacier: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in West Glacier: 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 350 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA UST Finder, US Census (place boundary)

Wells on record

162

39.1 per sq mi

Median well depth

104 ft

half of wells 43–178 ft

Median static water level

60 ft

151 measurements

Median tested yield

25 gpm

153 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in West Glacier?

Of 154 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 104 feet. Half were drilled between 43 and 178 feet; one in ten went deeper than 409 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 27 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
27%
50–100 ft
20%
100–200 ft
30%
200–300 ft
6%
300–500 ft
12%
500 ft and deeper
6%

Static water level

60 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 19 and 89 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

25 gpm

median tested yield · half between 15 and 40 gpm

2% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 69% 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 West Glacier

19 wells have been completed here since 2016, 1 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed November 13, 2025. Records run back to 1925.

What the wells are for

  • Domestic123
  • Public Water Supply24
  • Industrial7
  • Irrigation4
  • Stockwater4

How they were drilled

  • Rotary75
  • Cable27
  • Forward Rotary21
  • Rotary Dr7

Drillers filing well logs in West Glacier

  • Okeefe Drilling Co7 since 2016 · 2025
  • Billmayer Drilling4 since 2016 · 2024
  • Chambers Drilling Company2 since 2016 · 2023
  • Glazier Drilling2 since 2016 · 2017
  • Weber Drilling26 all-time · 1995
  • Liberty Drilling & Pump Co8 all-time · 2007
  • Sudan Drilling7 all-time · 2014
  • Western Water Works Inc6 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 West Glacier

Montana DNRC lists 174 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 163 groundwater and 10 surface water, 153 of them active. The median priority date is 1988, and the oldest claim dates to 1902.

Types of right

  • Ground Water Certificate83
  • Provisional Permit55
  • Statement Of Claim31
  • Exempt Notice4
  • Compact1

Purposes

  • Domestic66
  • Domestic; Lawn And Garden20
  • Commercial14
  • Multiple Domestic10
  • Domestic; Stock7

DNRC basins

  • 76I135
  • 76LJ39

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 West Glacier 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)37 wells · 37% · median 94 ft
  • Alluvium (holocene)30 wells · 30% · median 28 ft
  • Glacial Drift12 wells · 12% · median 105 ft
  • Glacial Outwash (pleistocene)10 wells · 10% · median 60 ft
  • Belt Supergroup5 wells · 5% · median 409 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 West Glacier

Petroleum releases

1

0 open · 1 resolved

Superfund program sites

0

none on the National Priorities List

Registered tank facilities

13

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 1990. A property report screens the sites within a quarter, half and one mile of a specific parcel and links the agency records.