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Wye: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in Wye: 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 379 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA UST Finder, US Census (place boundary)

Wells on record

208

71.2 per sq mi

Median well depth

200 ft

half of wells 148–280 ft

Median static water level

108 ft

170 measurements

Median tested yield

25 gpm

176 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in Wye?

Of 200 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 200 feet. Half were drilled between 148 and 280 feet; one in ten went deeper than 377 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 80 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
7%
50–100 ft
7%
100–200 ft
36%
200–300 ft
31%
300–500 ft
16%
500 ft and deeper
5%

Static water level

108 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 65 and 162 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

1% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 66% 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 Wye

36 wells have been completed here since 2016. The newest log on file was completed April 8, 2025. Records run back to 1919.

What the wells are for

  • Domestic127
  • Public Water Supply30
  • Monitoring17
  • Industrial14
  • Other8

How they were drilled

  • Rotary122
  • Foward Rotary23
  • Cable11
  • Forward Rotary11

Drillers filing well logs in Wye

  • Okeefe Drilling Co9 since 2016 · 2018
  • Western Montana Drilling Co.7 since 2016 · 2025
  • Coldwater Drilling And Pumps5 since 2016 · 2024
  • Jeromes Drilling Co4 since 2016 · 2023
  • Camp Well Drilling And Pump Service4 since 2016 · 2024
  • Camp Well Drilling & Pump Supply2 since 2016 · 2018
  • Camp Well Drilling35 all-time · 2010
  • Jeromes Drilling Co24 all-time · 2008

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 Wye

Montana DNRC lists 129 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 129 groundwater and 0 surface water, 121 of them active. The median priority date is 1999, and the oldest claim dates to 1955.

Types of right

  • Ground Water Certificate108
  • Provisional Permit11
  • Statement Of Claim7
  • Exempt Notice3

Purposes

  • Commercial34
  • Domestic26
  • Domestic; Lawn And Garden14
  • Other Purpose7
  • Commercial; Lawn And Garden7

DNRC basins

  • 76M129

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 Wye 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.

  • Sediments (tertiary)82 wells · 61% · median 189 ft
  • Alluvium (pleistocene)23 wells · 17% · median 157 ft
  • Sand And Gravel (tertiary)21 wells · 16% · median 280 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 Wye

Petroleum releases

28

3 open · 25 resolved

Superfund program sites

0

none on the National Priorities List

Registered tank facilities

14

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.