How to Find and Read Your Well's State Well Report in Parker County

Karin Malone

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How to Find and Read Your Well's State Well Report in Parker County
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Your well's State Well Report is the driller's record of how the well was built: how deep it goes, what layers it passes through, how it was cased and sealed, and where the pump was set. Reports for wells drilled in 2003 or later are searchable in the Texas Water Development Board's online database. Older reports are scanned in a TCEQ viewer. Both are free.

If you own a well in Parker County, or you're buying a place with one, this document answers many of the questions people ask a driller on the first call. Here's how to find yours and how to read it.

Who has a copy of your well report

Texas law requires a driller to keep a log for every well they drill, deepen or alter. Within 60 days of finishing, the driller must send a copy to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the well's owner (Texas Occupations Code §1901.251). The form is TDLR Form 001WWD, titled "Well Report."

That means a copy may be in any of these places:

  • Your own files, or the closing documents from when you bought the property.
  • The driller's office, if you know who drilled the well.
  • The Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District in Springtown (817-523-5200). It holds well registrations for Parker, Hood, Wise and Montague counties and can tell you what it has on file for your well.
  • The state's two public databases, covered below.

Before you search: gather two facts

The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) says you need at least two things: roughly when the well was drilled, and the name of the property owner at that time. The well's depth and the drilling company's name also help. The year tells you which database to use.

Wells drilled in 2003 or later: search the TWDB

Reports from 2003 onward are in the TWDB's Submitted Drillers Reports (SDR) database. Drillers file into it through an online system that TDLR and the TWDB run together. There are two ways to search it:

  1. By map. Open the TWDB Groundwater Data Viewer and type your street address in the search bar at the upper left. Orange dots mark wells. Click the dot on your property, then click its tracking number to open the report.
  2. By database search. The SDR search page takes an owner name, a street address, a driller name or a range of drilling dates.

Type less, not more. The search matches exactly what you enter, so "Ranch Road" won't return a report the driller typed as "Ranch Rd." Start with the owner's last name or just the street name, then narrow it down.

Wells drilled before 2003: use the TCEQ viewer

Older reports were mailed in on paper. TCEQ's Water Well Report Viewer holds scanned copies of more than one million reports that drillers have filed since 1960, according to the Texas Groundwater Protection Committee. To use it:

  1. Enter your street address at the upper left.
  2. Click the map at your location and choose Plotted WW Reports (grid).
  3. Click the Grid Num link to download the PDF for that grid.

Each PDF covers a map grid, not a single address, so expect to page past other wells' reports to reach yours. Match on the owner name and drilling year you gathered.

If you can't find your report

  • It may be confidential. The well's owner, or the person it was drilled for, can ask TDLR by certified mail to keep the report out of the public record (Texas Occupations Code §1901.251). A confidential report won't show up in a search.
  • The owner name may not be the one you expect. A builder, developer or earlier owner may be listed instead of the family living there now. Try the driller's name or a date range instead.
  • The well may be older than the records. The TCEQ scans start in 1960. A hand-dug or very old well may never have had a report.
  • Ask for help. The TWDB answers lookup questions at GroundwaterData@twdb.texas.gov, and the Upper Trinity district can check its registration files. If you're not sure which office handles what, see who regulates your well in Parker County.

How to read the report, section by section

The form has numbered sections from 1 to 18, plus a formation log down the left side. These are the parts that matter most to an owner, in the order they appear:

Form sectionWhat it recordsWhat to check
3) Type of WorkNew well, replacement, deepening or reconditioning"Deepening" means an earlier report exists for the original well too.
4) Proposed UseDomestic, livestock, irrigation, public supply and so onDoes it match how the well is used today?
5) Drilling DateStart and completion datesThe well's age, and roughly when the water level below was measured.
Formation log (From, To, Description and color)Each layer the bit went through, by depthSand, gravel or broken rock usually gives water. Long runs of shale or clay usually don't.
8) Borehole CompletionOpen hole, straight wall, under-reamed or filter packed"Filter packed" means gravel was placed around the screen. The interval is listed.
9) Casing, Blank Pipe, and Well Screen DataSize, new or used, steel or plastic, and the depth of each length of pipeWhere solid casing ends and slotted or screened pipe begins is where water enters the well.
10) Annular Seal DataHow the gap between the casing and the borehole wall was sealed, plus measured distances to the septic tank, septic field and property lineState rules call for the seal to run from ground level down at least 10 feet, and set minimums of 50 ft to a septic tank, 100 ft to a septic absorption field and 50 ft to the property line (16 TAC §76.100).
11) Surface CompletionSurface slab, sleeve, pitless adapter or an alternative procedureHow the top of the well was protected from surface water. A slab must reach at least 2 ft out from the well and be at least 4 inches thick (16 TAC §76.100).
12) Water LevelStatic water level in feet and the date it was measuredHow far down the water stood with the pump off, on that day.
15) Type PumpSubmersible, jet, turbine or cylinder, and the depth to the pumpThe pump setting when the well was finished.
16) Water TestTest type (pump, bailer, jetted or estimated), yield in gallons per minute, and drawdown after a set number of hours"Estimated" means the yield wasn't measured with a test.
17) Water QualityWhether a chemical analysis was made, and whether the driller knowingly drilled into water with "injurious constituents"A "Yes" here deserves a careful read and a lab test of your water.
18) Company and license numberWho drilled the wellYou can check the license with TDLR's online license search.

Sections 13 (Packers) and 14 (Plugged) apply mainly to special completions and to wells that were plugged, so they're often empty on a working house well.

The three numbers to compare: depth, water level and pump setting

Most owners want three numbers: total depth, static water level and pump depth. Together they show how much water stands above the pump.

Here's an example: a 240-foot well with water standing at 110 feet and the pump set at 200 feet has about 90 feet of water over the pump when it's idle. When the pump runs, the water level drops. Section 16 records how far it dropped during the driller's test.

For comparison, the TWDB database holds 4,746 reports for new house wells (proposed use "Domestic") in Parker County drilled from January 2021 through late September 2026. Across those reports:

  • Total depth: median 240 ft, with the middle half between 200 and 300 ft.
  • Static water level: median 110 ft, among reports that list one.
  • Pump setting: median 200 ft.
  • Pump type: 91% list a submersible pump.

Depths vary across the county. Wells within about 5 miles of Aledo had a median depth of 320 ft, with water standing at 176 ft. Wells near Peaster and Poolville clustered between 200 and 240 ft. (Tally of the TWDB Submitted Drillers Reports database, downloaded September 25, 2026.)

Expect some blank lines

Don't worry if parts of your report are empty. Of those 4,746 recent Parker County reports, only 1,908 (about 4 in 10) have a static water level recorded in the database, and about a quarter have no pump depth. A blank line doesn't mean the well is faulty. It means you'll need a current measurement, which is what you want anyway.

What the report can't tell you

  • Today's water level and yield. The report is a snapshot from the day the well was finished. Water levels move with drought and with nearby pumping.
  • The equipment you have now. The pump line describes the pump installed when the well was finished. If the pump, pressure tank or wiring has been replaced since, the report may not show it.
  • Whether the water is safe to drink. The report says nothing about bacteria or nitrate in your water today. Only a lab test can tell you that.

If you're buying a property with a well, the report is where the check starts, not where it ends. A Weatherford-area water well inspection pairs it with a current flow and pressure test, an equipment check and a water sample drawn before closing.

Keep the report with your property papers

  • Save the PDF with your deed and closing documents, and give a copy to the buyer if you sell.
  • If you buy a property with a registered well in the Upper Trinity district, file the district's transfer of ownership form.
  • Keep a short note of later work, such as the year a pump was replaced and the depth it was set at. That fills the gaps the original report can't.

Quick answers

Are Texas well reports public? Yes, unless the owner asked TDLR in writing, by certified mail, to keep the report confidential. Reports from 2003 onward are searchable in the TWDB's free database. Most older reports filed since 1960 are scanned in TCEQ's Water Well Report Viewer.

How long does a driller have to file the report? 60 days from finishing the well. The driller must send copies to TDLR, TCEQ and the well's owner within that time (Texas Occupations Code §1901.251).

Can I find a report for a well drilled in the 1980s? Often, yes. Use TCEQ's Water Well Report Viewer, which holds scans of reports filed since 1960. The viewer groups reports by map grid, so you'll need the owner's name from that time and the approximate year to pick yours out.

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